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Pleasure and suffering are the most (the only?) important moral value. But they don't stand on an equal footing. Suffering has more moral weight than pleasure. This is my first look into this problem.


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References, Links, Further Reading:

Why it is Always a Harm to Come Into Existence. Vegan Antinatalist. youtube.com/watch?v=0CnW5jNm04E

Does Pleasure Matter? (Antinatalism). Daily Negativity. youtube.com/watch?v=bMKoABMmLZ0

Are Happiness and Suffering Symmetric? Brian Tomasik. reducing-suffering.org/happiness-suffering-symmetric

Bad Is Stronger Than Good. Roy F. Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenaure. Review of General Psychology 2001, Vol. 5. No. 4, 323-370. http://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Negativity bias. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias


Pain, Pleasure, and Unpleasure. Michael Brady. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-014-0176-5


Suffering. Thomas Metzinger. blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/files/2013/04/Metzinger_suffering_penultimate.pdf

Arguments for Antinatalism and EFILism (a playlist). youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWQ0LBECuOerQx5rtZt9B4sizJz_9Kku

Antinatalism, EFILism, Negative Utilitarianism (a playlist). youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWQ0LBECuOc2qtk9h7PruhH4I4lLHZHP

Pessimism, Antinatalism, Negative Utilitarianism, EFILism by Conundrum (a playlist). youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWQ0LBECuOc_n-c5onb9LyI3Mc4FFqRn

The Antinatalist Book List. Planet Zapffe. knunst.com/planetzapffe/?page_id=1569



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