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Chain 58
From Chains of Reason
A world without human suffering is morally preferable to this world, in which there is human suffering, even though the former would lack the acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world.
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- Premise 1
- A world without human suffering would lack the acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world.
- Premise 2
- The acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world are only morally desirable because such acts are aimed at reducing human suffering, and the less human suffering there is in the world the more morally desirable the world is.
- Conclusion
- A world without human suffering is morally preferable to this world, in which there is human suffering, even though the former would lack the acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world.
