Scenario: You will suffer from malnutrition, living in painful agony, for eternity. You can end it at any time by introducing death to the world. Do you do it?
If you aren’t willing to suffer, don’t ask others to. But more importantly:
Scenario: You (or a loved one of yours) will die in the next hour. There’s a button you can press, which will delay your death by an hour but cause some random person to suffer horribly for an hour each time you press it. How many times do you press the button?
Fight or Flight responses are not moral judgements.
I read both your posts fully, and I apologize for having misjudged you. In my experience I had only run into people who hadn’t had any meaningful experience with death making this sort of “but it’s good for the world” claim. I should’ve known better than to generalize that to Less Wrong posters.
If my epic post is too long, the short version:
Scenario: You will suffer from malnutrition, living in painful agony, for eternity. You can end it at any time by introducing death to the world. Do you do it?
If you aren’t willing to suffer, don’t ask others to. But more importantly:
Scenario: You (or a loved one of yours) will die in the next hour. There’s a button you can press, which will delay your death by an hour but cause some random person to suffer horribly for an hour each time you press it. How many times do you press the button?
Fight or Flight responses are not moral judgements.
I read both your posts fully, and I apologize for having misjudged you. In my experience I had only run into people who hadn’t had any meaningful experience with death making this sort of “but it’s good for the world” claim. I should’ve known better than to generalize that to Less Wrong posters.
Your point is well taken, thank you.
Thanks to you as well.