(March 27, 2013 at 9:41 am)Faith No More Wrote: Is there any level of suffering that you would deem so egregious that it could not be worth any gain? Because that is how I see certain types of suffering such as that of a child being abused.
I thought about this for a while now. The thing about suffering is that it's temporal, the thing about praiseworthiness (with perpetual identity) is that it's an everlasting thing. This alone may make praiseworthiness always more worthwhile then any suffering. If suffering was eternal like hell is in Christianity and Islam, then I would say, a system which brings eternal suffering is evil. However, if it brings temporal pain for everlasting praise, then I would say this seems like a worthwhile trade.
Aside from that, I think it's a little too poetic and not logical, to say that the abuse of a child outweighs all the praise gained by all humanity partially due to (potential) evil and suffering existing. That every level of praise gained through free-will, accumulate all that, and yet that's not worth the sacrifice.
