(March 28, 2013 at 6:51 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: 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.
Then your whole view on suffering is dependent upon a peaceful afterlife?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
