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If you take "only suffering matters" to its logical extreme, you get Antinatalism, which essentially says our goal as intelligent beings should be to stop exist
by kdmccormick 7y ago
If you take "only suffering matters" to its logical extreme, you get Antinatalism, which essentially says our goal as intelligent beings should be to stop existing in order to minimize suffering.
Yes, suffering matters, but certainly it shouldn't be the sole basis for morality.
- pritambaral 7y agoNote that your parent does not argue "only suffering matters", only that "suffering matters".
- kdmccormick 7y agoFrom GGP (emphasis mine): > And it should be the basis for systems of morality...