RE: Ayn Rand -Faith vs Reason
January 11, 2011 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2011 at 9:45 am by Edwardo Piet.)
If you had one wish, which would you wish out of the two options?
A. Removing absolutely all the horrible pain and suffering that goes on in the world, whilst leaving those who are already happy (including those who are only barely happy) the same.
B. Maximizing all the pleasure in the world that already exists, whilst leaving all those who are unhappy (including the extreme unhappiness of intense torture) the same.
I definitely choose the former from a moral perspective. Absolutely.
Selfishly I like to live and I'm not saying that I would necessarily have the courage to do away with both the suffering and the pleasure in the world (if I could in a completely harmless way) rather than keep both. But morally I do think that that would be preferable.
A. Removing absolutely all the horrible pain and suffering that goes on in the world, whilst leaving those who are already happy (including those who are only barely happy) the same.
B. Maximizing all the pleasure in the world that already exists, whilst leaving all those who are unhappy (including the extreme unhappiness of intense torture) the same.
I definitely choose the former from a moral perspective. Absolutely.
Selfishly I like to live and I'm not saying that I would necessarily have the courage to do away with both the suffering and the pleasure in the world (if I could in a completely harmless way) rather than keep both. But morally I do think that that would be preferable.
