Reality is relative, so you may be completely right for many.
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I don't think so. Let me share my idea with you.
Let's imagine the greatest thing in existence. The greatest joy. Someone living the state of nirvana.
Now let's also imagine the worst feeling in existence. I'm not sure what it is, but let's be very crude and imagine a little girl getting beaten and molested for all her life without knowing why. It's hard to imagine something worse than that.
Do you think the suffering of this little girl was worth it so that the man could feel nirvana?
If I was given the choice to terminate existence with the press of a button, which means ending the greatest gift of living to stop the greatest sufferings, I don't see how it could be anything less than selfish to perpetuate it.
The age old question of, is it better to feel something than to feel nothing at all.
You pose a good scenario, it does seem selfish to perpetuate an existence that is nothing but pain for some.
Maybe feeling nothing is actually the greatest feeling of anguish and we prefer suffering over it. But it dosen't really make sense since there's nothing to feel nothing.
Not only is there nothing, it means you never existed. What is worse, suffering or non existence?
Suffering seems worse. No hesitation. But maybe I'm missing something.
Definitely interesting to ponder, would it be worth it to remove all consciousness that has ever existed, all human experience, just to avoid suffering? I don’t claim to know the answer
Me neither but I've pondered the question a lot and the only conclusion I can reach is that, yes, it would be worth it to remove all consciousness.
I even believe that God himself would like not to be. But that dosen't make sense as he is. Simply. He is. Non existence is not a thing and therefore cannot be. That's why we are infinite.
I love this conversation, that 2nd paragraph is a work of art.
"Do you think the suffering of this little girl was worth it so that the man could feel nirvana? "
Yes I do, in fact even if it were only the abuse victim feeling anything it would still be worth it. I would even say there is no difference between suffering and joy. Those are illusions.
Respect for biting the bullet on that one and just say yes. But I can't agree. I think i understand where you're coming from when you say the difference is an illusion because at the end of the day everything is one and the same thing but it's too abstract and we do feel a difference. The illusion is real as fuck.