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Cutting someone's head off is not necessarily worse for their friends and family than insulting them?

• joesmo 11y ago
  I think you replied to the wrong comment.
  • isolate 11y ago
    No, but I probably misread yours if you didn't understand my question. I thought you said different kinds of suffering are incomparable, and so I asked about not being able to compare two specific kinds of suffering, murder and insults. (Or rather, acts that can induce suffering and the suffering that results.)
    • joesmo 11y ago
      No, I said you can't compare people's suffering because you can't measure it, regardless of what's causing that suffering.
      • lucio 11y ago
        yes you can, a beaten wife is suffering more than a person who gets insulted. Both are suffering, but the wife is in the worst situation.
      • isolate 11y ago
        All I'm doing is trying to examine your claim at the extremes. At the other end, are we able to tell the difference between zero suffering and some suffering?