Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?

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Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?

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RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?

November 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm (This post was last modified: November 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm by Edwardo Piet.)

I'll make it really fucking simple: If 10,000 people suffer identically, no one feels more pain than anyone else. So why should you or would you care 10,000 times more, or any more at all? Why care about quantity of sufferers if not one sufferer suffers any more than any other? If you think that if enough people suffer from pin pricks you can consider that to morally outweigh one person being severely tortured, then I give up: All I can say is I find that repugnant.

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Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 29, 2010 at 12:41 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Yahadreas - October 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 3:52 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by The Omnissiunt One - October 29, 2010 at 1:46 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 29, 2010 at 1:48 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 5:46 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 7:01 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 7:36 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Yahadreas - October 30, 2010 at 6:38 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 6:43 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 7:40 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 8:36 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - October 30, 2010 at 8:44 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 9:47 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:00 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 10:14 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 9:54 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 30, 2010 at 10:53 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 12:10 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 30, 2010 at 4:39 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Minimalist - October 30, 2010 at 5:20 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - October 30, 2010 at 5:44 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - October 31, 2010 at 5:45 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - October 31, 2010 at 10:19 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 1, 2010 at 5:42 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Shinylight - November 2, 2010 at 7:26 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 2, 2010 at 9:12 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:47 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 7:53 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Tiberius - November 3, 2010 at 7:56 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 12:02 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 4, 2010 at 6:17 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 4, 2010 at 6:49 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - November 2, 2010 at 7:23 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:12 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 7:18 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Tiberius - November 3, 2010 at 7:48 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - November 2, 2010 at 7:49 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Paul the Human - November 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 2, 2010 at 9:18 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by ib.me.ub - November 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 7:56 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Violet - November 3, 2010 at 8:29 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by Edwardo Piet - November 3, 2010 at 8:39 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - November 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - November 5, 2010 at 12:51 am

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - December 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by theVOID - December 17, 2010 at 10:47 pm

RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them? - by jason56 - December 24, 2010 at 10:11 pm

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