Is pain focused morality the best morality?

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I think morality that is focused on reducing pain is the best morality.

This is because pain is the worst thing in the world.

If I had a choice between:
1. Living for 100 years, but burn alive every day
2. Not live at all, die instantly

I would never choose option 1.

So we see that life is not worth living if person lives in unbearable pain every day.

So the morality system should mainly be focused on value of reducing pain, or not increasing pain.

Pain even outweighs happiness.
Lack of great pain is prefered over lack of great happiness.

This is meassured usually by the "desire to remove current state of things".

People who lack great happiness dont rush to remove that and achieve great happiness.

But people in great pain rush to remove great pain.
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Pain is a signal in your nervous system that something may be wrong. It is an unpleasant feeling, such as a prick, tingle, sting, burn, or ache. Pain may be sharp or dull. It may come and go, or it may be constant. You may feel pain in one area of your body, such as your back, abdomen, chest, pelvis, or you may feel pain all over.

I wonder how pain evolved in evolution?
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I always figured that if animals didnt evolve to feel pain, they wouldnt run away from danger or predators, which would make life as we know it impossible, which would still probably be better than the mess we have now.
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That makes sense.
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you have a lot of insightful ideas. also consider that philsophers often agreed on the idea of maximizing happiness for everyone, as a moral thing to work towards. maximzing, not necessarily being perfect. also consider that the point of life, is for humans to alleviate suffering, and suffering can't be alleviated unless it exists to begin with. also consider that we can't know bliss without knowing non bliss. also consider that jesus said those who suffer, will one day bring glory to God, when they no longer suffer. i know i've told you these ideas, and you've rejected many of them... but i'm just reiterating. 
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idea of maximizing happiness for everyone, as a moral thing to work towards
Sure, I like being happy.

those who suffer, will one day bring glory to God, when they no longer suffer. i know i've told you these ideas, and you've rejected many of them... but i'm just reiterating
Well, I am an atheist. I am certain that my afterlife will be bad if Jesus turns out to be God.

we can't know bliss without knowing non bliss
Are you suggesting that people cant be happy without pain? If that were true, then most abused people would be most happy, and we all know thats not the case, otherwise we would have moral duty to abuse others.
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bliss v non bliss.

you said it yourself, we can't function in life without pain, and we also can't know light without dark. it's inherent in our reality. we can't know bliss without non bliss. could there be a reality where there is only bliss and no non bliss? yes, but it's not meant for our purposes here, in my opinion. also, i expressly didn't say only the abuse can maximize bliss... i'm saying the abused coudn't know bliss unless they experienced non bliss. 

another idea, is according to new age thinking, it's not just alleviating suffering,,, but also experience for the sake of experience. we are the universe experiencing itself. experience is the end game in our reality, not necessarily maximal bliss, though that should be everyone's goal. 
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we can't know bliss without non bliss
I would prefer to give up on happiness if it meant no pain in life.

But my designer disagreed.

Now, since you agree that increasing pain doesnt increase happiness but almost always decreases it, it follows that reducing pain is necessary for increasing happiness too.
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The value of pain, life, or happiness, can be estimated.

Just imagine the situation you would want to avoid at all cost.

I would like to avoid great pain at all cost. In fact, great happiness is of less importance than lack of great pain.
Great pain usually includes lack of happiness.

Even with great happiness in life, the presence of great pain makes such life undesirable.
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you've definitely taken some time to come to some basic but profoundly insights on this topic. maybe you are meant to be a nihilist. if you want to develop your nihilism, maybe you should read more explicitly from nihilistic philosphers. 
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@Best.Korea
you have achieved one of your goals in life, by experiencing a sucky life. remember, experience, for the sake of experience. also, you have achieved very perceptive insights by having your condition... you achieved wisdom. even if you never become an exceptional writer or philsopher, you achieved wisdom and experience from the unique perspective of best korea. 

you go, you.