Oh, sure. I was wondering about the reverse question: is there something that doesn’t really qualify as torture where subjecting a billion people to it is worse than subjecting one person to torture.
I’m also interested in how this forms some sort of “layered” discontinuous scale. If it were continuous, then you could form a chain of relations of the form “10 people suffering A is as bad as 1 person suffering B”, “10 people suffering B is as bad as 1 person suffering C”, and so on to span the entire spectrum.
Then it would take some additional justification for saying that 100 people suffering A is not as bad as 1 person suffering C, 1000 A vs 1 D, and so on.
Oh, sure. I was wondering about the reverse question: is there something that doesn’t really qualify as torture where subjecting a billion people to it is worse than subjecting one person to torture.
I’m also interested in how this forms some sort of “layered” discontinuous scale. If it were continuous, then you could form a chain of relations of the form “10 people suffering A is as bad as 1 person suffering B”, “10 people suffering B is as bad as 1 person suffering C”, and so on to span the entire spectrum.
Then it would take some additional justification for saying that 100 people suffering A is not as bad as 1 person suffering C, 1000 A vs 1 D, and so on.