Being that the opposing side again is not challenging my points again in this topic, I will challenge the following from the opposing side.
"In fact, the closer one gets to "causing no pain", the better it is."
What does this mean "the closer one gets"?
Closer by doing what? Are you doing it while alive?
Are you doing by going towards death to eliminate pain or the opposite way?
"Pain is the worst thing in the world, worse than being dead."
This just proved my point . Calling my point wrong is calling this point from the opposing side wrong. This just backed up my point. Saying something is the worst thing in the world applies context like I said. Saying "in the world" is comparing to not only what exists as I said and how pain is represented via what is expressed in existence , you guage other elements existing in that world in comparison.
So it's not "no pain " equals good. It's "no pain " plus the comparable/desirable good outcome equals good.
Example: If we go by the no pain only rule, we can get an unwanted result that is not good which negates the standard of just the "no pain" criteria in turn giving us a false or pseudo good;not truly good. Again this was demonstrated with the genie example.
So no pain being possibly dead as compared to no pain and alive is the difference. So we can't just say simply no pain and that's what makes something good by itself.
Again.
So no pain being possibly dead as compared to no pain and alive is the difference. So we can't just say simply no pain and that's what makes something good by itself.
Again.
So no pain being possibly dead as compared to no pain and alive is the difference. So we can't just say simply no pain and that's what makes something good by itself.
"Your arguments are all wrong."
This is like a trend with the opposing side now whereas this individual is falling back on not arguing again for simply a lack of critical reasoning or an indirect way of saying "I concede".
Either way, that's what it is.
"worse than being dead."
Another comparison to where it is not known other than us assuming non existence of pain which concedes to my point of existence to make an expression of a quality. You only take an idea that it's worse than non existence because it has to exist for it to be experienced.
It has to exist for it to be compared and contrasted and represented in expressive context. So an existence is the context to setup your comparisons. When you say worse than death , now you're saying no pain plus, plus, plus existing, not being dead but alive with no pain is good.
Now can we measurably compare or compare at all an existing experience to one we know nothing about such as a non experience?
It is not computable. It is however with other experiences. It's like we can't calculate letters with numbers but we can numbers with numbers see.
So we can leave the death facet out of this. By saying pain is worse than death, you're indirectly acknowledging from an experience side of things to be able to make that statement by just trying to scale it even though it's against something out of range or off the scale anyway.
From the experience side of it, that is context plus causing no pain equals whatever it is.
Which validates no to the topic, invalidating a yes to it.
Cause no pain; a good moral system
Tf does that even mean?