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Comment author: ddxxdd 27 December 2012 09:30:59AM 1 point [-]

Sometimes you want people to suffer. For example, if one fellow caused all the suffering of the rest, moving him to less suffering than everyone else would be a move to a worse universe.

...because doing so would create incentive to not cause suffering to others. In the long run, that would result in less universal suffering overall. Isn't this correct?

Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 December 2012 08:29:28PM 2 points [-]

No, that's not my motivation at all. That's not my because. It's just vengeance on my part.

Even if one regarded the design of vengeance as an evolutionary adaptation, I don't think that vengeance minimizes suffering, it punishes infractions against values.

At that level, it's not about minimizing suffering either, it's about evolutionary fitness.

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