<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ricardo Barreira</b> <<a href="mailto:rbarreira@gmail.com">rbarreira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I think pleasure and suffering can weigh each other<br>> out. If and only if there is more pleasure than<br>> suffering in a person's life, that life is<br>> intrinsically worth living (all other things equal).
<br><br>So would you like to live a life in which you spend 50 years in heaven<br>and then 49 years in hell?</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br><br></div><br></div><br>