I was thinking of classifying suffering into two categories: mental and physical. By physical suffering I mean suffering that is due to the neural connections between our body parts and brain. I believe this kind of suffering is caused due to hormones or electrical activity. With the appropriate tools, we can quantify such sufferings.
The 2nd type of suffering which is mental can never be quantified and is subjective. Would you agree with this ? If there's no way to compare such suffering (or even objectively say it's a suffering, one example would be masochism), then any philosophy that tries to minimize it is on shaky grounds(the suffering being subjective)
If suppose we completely eradicate all sources of physical suffering, then will it make natalism acceptable ? (The reasoning being that only mental sufferings will remain and since these sufferings are subjective and perhaps fault of our own ideas so none else is responsible for them).
(Please note that by mental suffering I don't refer to depression or any other disorders that occur due to hormonal imbalance.)
I was thinking of classifying suffering into two categories: mental and physical. By physical suffering I mean suffering that is due to the neural connections between our body parts and brain. I believe this kind of suffering is caused due to hormones or electrical activity. With the appropriate tools, we can quantify such sufferings.The 2nd type of suffering which is mental can never be quantified and is subjective. Would you agree with this ? If there's no way to compare such suffering (or even objectively say it's a suffering, one example would be masochism), then any philosophy that tries to minimize it is on shaky grounds(the suffering being subjective)If suppose we completely eradicate all sources of physical suffering, then will it make natalism acceptable ? (The reasoning being that only mental sufferings will remain and since these sufferings are subjective and perhaps fault of our own ideas so none else is responsible for them).(Please note that by mental suffering I don't refer to depression or any other disorders that occur due to hormonal imbalance.) https://ift.tt/eA8V8J https://ift.tt/2U8tufX
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