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do you believe one persons happiness redeems another persons suffering?

• snrplfth 10y ago
  ...what? No, what I'm saying is, if you're trying to figure out "how well we're doing" at solving some particular problem, then you have to look at proportions. Any group of humans will suffer various things, the point is to decrease the likelihood that they do. If there's a group of ten people, and five are hungry, then they're doing worse on that metric than a group of a hundred people where five are hungry. This doesn't change when the groups you're looking at are "humans in past" and "humans presently".
• antisthenes 10y ago
  No, but 2 people's happiness redeems the suffering of 1.