[extropy-chat] Pleasure as ultimate measure of morality [Was: Pleasing Oneself]

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 2/28/07, Ricardo Barreira <rbarreira at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think pleasure and suffering can weigh each other
> > out. If and only if there is more pleasure than
> > suffering in a person's life, that life is
> > intrinsically worth living (all other things equal).
>
> So would you like to live a life in which you spend 50 years in heaven
> and then 49 years in hell?


These things don't add algebraically. Some would say yes while others might
pass up on it even if they were offered a minute of hell against 50 years of
heaven, and a depressive or a masochist might even prefer an option with
more hell than heaven.

Stathis Papaioannou
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