RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?
October 30, 2010 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2010 at 9:48 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Saerules Wrote:If the amount one experiences exists, then the amount that a group of ones experiences also exists.Only individually, they don't add up, not in experience. Individuals only actually experience their own experiences by definition. That's why it's their experiences. That's why they're individuals.
The sum total of identical individuals' identical sufferings can't make any difference to any one of those individuals whatsoever by definition because then they wouldn't be identical. Tautology.
Quote:Nobody has to experience the lot of it... gnats are annoying to lots of people.If the annoyance is equal to all those people, then not one of those people are being any more annoyed by there simply being more of them (otherwise they wouldn't be being equally annoyed), and therefore any one extra person who suffers more than a gnat bite has to be suffering more. Which is the point of my argument. No one suffers the total. The total doesn't exist outside your imagination, individual suffering does. So to care about the total sum of experience is to care about non-existent experience because no one experiences the total sum.
