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Suppose we grant that hell exists with some nonzero (albeit tiny) measure. By the same logic, heaven (some extraordinarily joyous and worthwhile state of exist
by rwallace 6y ago
Suppose we grant that hell exists with some nonzero (albeit tiny) measure.
By the same logic, heaven (some extraordinarily joyous and worthwhile state of existence) also exists with some nonzero measure.
You probably feel that the latter cannot outweigh the former (even though it logically should). Essentially that bad outweighs good. But why do you feel that? Literally, what is the cause of your brain containing that feeling?
It's because human intuition evolved in a world of asymmetric harms and benefits. For an animal living on Earth - the state in which we evolved - a single bad event can cause death, which is a greater harm than can (for most animals) be outweighed by any single good event.
Okay. So evolution gave us intuition tuned for the tradeoffs of life as a mortal animal, that often generates valid conclusions while we are living as such. But once we start talking about wild metaphysics like dust theory, all that goes out the window. The basic premise is that we are immortal! So if we are going to accept such wild metaphysical speculations at all, the first thing we need to do when thinking about them is remember that they completely invalidate our intuitive feelings about things like bad outweighing good.