Your Existence is a Pain
- by Pixel
It came to me one day in a ravishing illumination yesterday: humans are outside my moral sphere of consideration.
Consider this:
I believe that pleasure and pain have value in themselves (positive and negative, respectively).
I believe that the ethical thing to do in any circumstance is to reduce the amount of pain and maximize the amount of pleasure for everyone involved (pain first, in much the same way you pay your debts before you start lending money).
Humans are responsible for the cruel, cruel deaths of 43 billion animals per year, 78 million acres (31 million hectares) of trees being logged per year, and an ungodly amount of oil consumed every year.
Killing animals, logging trees that are animal habitats, and consuming oil that pollutes the sky and contaminates animals lungs causes pain in the world.
It is my duty to eliminate humans.
However, since I am also a tool for the prevention of pain and the promotion of pleasure, it is also my duty to not get myself arrested (i.e. if I eliminate 12 dolors of pain now and get arrested for it, it’ll prevent my eliminating 24 dolors later on). Thus, since it is unfeasible to eliminate humans at will, all I must do is prevent them from acting in such a way as to cause pain to other creatures and not help humans survive when I am able to do so at will.
So my moral obligations are to things that are above fish and below human, to all non-pestilent prey, and all quick-killing predators. In other words, mice and hyennas are out, cows and owls are in.
Hmm… I think I just went full circle in the political spectrum. Aren’t you glad you were here to witness it?
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It came to me one day in a ravishing illumination yesterday: humans are outside my moral sphere of consideration. Consider this: I believe that pleasure and pain have value in themselves (positive and negative, respectively). I believe that the ethical thing to do in any circumstance is to reduce the amount of pain and maximize…
I think you must proceed to find a way to eliminate humans that is socially acceptable – or at least, create a coalition of people whose purpose is to eliminate humans, and is accepted by society.
Hey man, the Italians have the Mafia.
BTW, I’M IN.