When did we start talking about someone “taking the pain of other people”? This is news to me; it wasn’t part of the argument before.
This, I understand is the reason you’re suggesting that I would torture 1 in 25 people. Well, I wouldn’t torture 1 in 25 people. I have already stated that if the total amount of pain is conserved (there may be difficulties with measuring “total pain”, but bear with me here) then I prefer it to be spread out evenly rather than piled onto one person.
In the dust speck formulation, the 3^^^3 being dustspecked are, in aggregate, suffering much more than the one person being tortured. 3^^^3 is very large. For any continuum you could actually describe that ends in “torture 1 in X people so that the remainder live perfect lives”, X will still be approximately 3^^^3. Possibly divided by some insignificant number like googolplex that can be writtten down in mere scientific notation.
When did we start talking about someone “taking the pain of other people”? This is news to me; it wasn’t part of the argument before.
This, I understand is the reason you’re suggesting that I would torture 1 in 25 people. Well, I wouldn’t torture 1 in 25 people. I have already stated that if the total amount of pain is conserved (there may be difficulties with measuring “total pain”, but bear with me here) then I prefer it to be spread out evenly rather than piled onto one person.
In the dust speck formulation, the 3^^^3 being dustspecked are, in aggregate, suffering much more than the one person being tortured. 3^^^3 is very large. For any continuum you could actually describe that ends in “torture 1 in X people so that the remainder live perfect lives”, X will still be approximately 3^^^3. Possibly divided by some insignificant number like googolplex that can be writtten down in mere scientific notation.
At no point did anyone accept your 1:25 proposal.