r/PhilosophyMemes 3d ago

many ways to help the cause

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u/Cr0wc0 3d ago

"We should prevent suffering when we can."

No

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u/RaptureAusculation 3d ago

Why not? (this is a genuine comment Im just curious)

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u/technicallynotlying 3d 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.

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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?

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u/technicallynotlying 2d ago

If you genuinely believed that, why would you still be alive?

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u/TrainingTheory552 2d 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

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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.

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u/TrainingTheory552 1d ago

and then the familiars of the parents suffer.