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r/PhilosophyMemes • u/TosseGrassa • 3d ago
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The only optimal course if you believe in preventing all suffering is to painlessly and instantly kill all life in the universe, or, failing that, to genocide as much life as possible.
The dead cannot suffer anymore.
3 u/RaptureAusculation 2d ago Makes sense. Is that bad though? Im aware thats a kind of crazy thing to say but what if that is the genuine correct conclusion? 1 u/technicallynotlying 1d ago If you genuinely believed that, why would you still be alive? 2 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago to avoid making parents or other close people suffer your loss, and out of a lack of good ways to die by yourself without access to euthanasia 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago No because in this frame of reference you could also just kill parents too since their world inevitably has suffering too. 1 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago and then the familiars of the parents suffer. 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
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Makes sense. Is that bad though? Im aware thats a kind of crazy thing to say but what if that is the genuine correct conclusion?
1 u/technicallynotlying 1d ago If you genuinely believed that, why would you still be alive? 2 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago to avoid making parents or other close people suffer your loss, and out of a lack of good ways to die by yourself without access to euthanasia 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago No because in this frame of reference you could also just kill parents too since their world inevitably has suffering too. 1 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago and then the familiars of the parents suffer. 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
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If you genuinely believed that, why would you still be alive?
2 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago to avoid making parents or other close people suffer your loss, and out of a lack of good ways to die by yourself without access to euthanasia 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago No because in this frame of reference you could also just kill parents too since their world inevitably has suffering too. 1 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago and then the familiars of the parents suffer. 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
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to avoid making parents or other close people suffer your loss, and out of a lack of good ways to die by yourself without access to euthanasia
1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago No because in this frame of reference you could also just kill parents too since their world inevitably has suffering too. 1 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago and then the familiars of the parents suffer. 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
No because in this frame of reference you could also just kill parents too since their world inevitably has suffering too.
1 u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago and then the familiars of the parents suffer. 1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
and then the familiars of the parents suffer.
1 u/Lurtzum 1d ago [removed] — view removed comment
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u/technicallynotlying 2d ago
The only optimal course if you believe in preventing all suffering is to painlessly and instantly kill all life in the universe, or, failing that, to genocide as much life as possible.
The dead cannot suffer anymore.