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Comment author: DanielLC 28 May 2012 03:03:57AM -1 points [-]

People can be tortured to create a lower set point on the hedonic treadmill. This allows for far more overall utility.

I think this is a pretty common belief among religious people. You can explain evil people by free will being important, but there's a lot of bad stuff that's nobody's fault.

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