Let’s make the distinction starker: Dead beings don’t remember. So if one concludes that remembered pain is irrelevant one should conclude that there’s no distinction between killing someone and torturing them to death. That clashes strongly enough with my intuition that I’d rather go and claim that lack of memory doesn’t make it not matter.
Let’s make the distinction starker: Dead beings don’t remember. So if one concludes that remembered pain is irrelevant one should conclude that there’s no distinction between killing someone and torturing them to death. That clashes strongly enough with my intuition that I’d rather go and claim that lack of memory doesn’t make it not matter.