We must aim to minimizing the pain first instead of maximizing the well-being | Intelligent Debating Platform | Arguman.org

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Karl Popper

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We must aim to minimizing the pain first instead of maximizing the well-being

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that we should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness.

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

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"When we forget pain, or underestimate it, or talk about people 'getting used to it', we are really so far losing sight of what the universe, which we wish to conceive adequately, really is."

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Edmund Gurney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gurney