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You probably need to add "increase human happiness" or something along those lines, because otherwise the group of "let's painlessly euthanize all the other hum
by Joker_vD 7y ago
You probably need to add "increase human happiness" or something along those lines, because otherwise the group of "let's painlessly euthanize all the other humans first, and then ourselves" guys are trivially "good guys" — they monotonically reduce the human suffering to zero.
- nine_k 7y agoIn Buddhism, human existence is a source of inevitable suffering. The only way out is to (eventually) reduce your karma to nothing, and to not be born again. The difference from your euthanizing sect is that nobody can be forced to follow this path (not just morally, but also technically).
- Jeff_Brown 7y ago> In Buddhism, human existence is a source of inevitable suffering. The only way out is to ... not be born again. Framed that way, Buddhism sounds remarkably nihilistic.