The question can be formulated in a couple of ways: how much suffering outweighs the benefits of living? Or, is there an amount of happiness that outweighs som

The question can be formulated in a couple of ways: how much suffering outweighs the benefits of living? Or, is there an amount of happiness that outweighs some amount of suffering? Among utilitarians, that's one of the major differences. Your argument is valid and has been made before, and the answers are varied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism#The_benevolent_world-exploder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism#The_be...