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Would you prefer that one person be horribly tortured for eternity without hope or rest, or that 3^^^3 people die?
One person being horribly tortured for eternity is equivalent to that one person being copied infinite times and having each copy tortured for the rest of their life. Death is better than a lifetime of horrible torture, and 3^^^3, despite being bigger than a whole lot of numbers, is still smaller than infinity.
What if the 3^^^3 people were one immortal person?
Well then the answer is still obviously death, and that fact has become more immediately intuitive - probably even those who disagreed with my assessment of the original question would agree with my choice given the scenario "an immortal person is tortured forever or an otherwise-immortal person dies"
Being horribly tortured is worse than death, so I'd pick death.