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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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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism