Make this hypothetical experiment:
In front of your, there is a pill that you have to decide if you will or won't swallow.
That pill is know to give the highest amount of pleasure that the human brain could ever experience; in numbers, its infinite pleasure.
However, that effect only lasts for a short period of time and the rest of your life will be miserable.
So, you have to decide: is experiencing an infinite amount of pleasure but living years from now on in a limited yet persistent misery worth it?
if you answered no, in this case, you are rationally obliged to follow negative utilitarianism in order to not fall into contradiction.
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Via the experiment of the pill, you discovered that you prefer to not experience pleasure when it also gives you suffering because that suffering eliminates something that you give the uppermost importance.
That is "pax animi", the absence of: suffering, psychological and emotional disturbances... Also know as peace of mind.
It is only when you give priority to eliminating the roots of suffering (even the ones pleasurable) that you can achieve that.
And to help you with that, the principles of negative utilitarianism were created, and they are listed in the next part of this text.
In front of your, there is a pill that you have to decide if you will or won't swallow.
That pill is know to give the highest amount of pleasure that the human brain could ever experience; in numbers, its infinite pleasure.
However, that effect only lasts for a short period of time and the rest of your life will be miserable.
So, you have to decide: is experiencing an infinite amount of pleasure but living years from now on in a limited yet persistent misery worth it?
if you answered no, in this case, you are rationally obliged to follow negative utilitarianism in order to not fall into contradiction.
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Via the experiment of the pill, you discovered that you prefer to not experience pleasure when it also gives you suffering because that suffering eliminates something that you give the uppermost importance.
That is "pax animi", the absence of: suffering, psychological and emotional disturbances... Also know as peace of mind.
It is only when you give priority to eliminating the roots of suffering (even the ones pleasurable) that you can achieve that.
And to help you with that, the principles of negative utilitarianism were created, and they are listed in the next part of this text.
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