Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough. My critique refers to your point about scenarios where humans evolve like a dystopia not being applicable because if it were, suffering should be a rare occurence—if I understand you correctly, you’re stating that if we could evolve to like dystopias, by this point in time we would have evolved to either avoid or like any source of suffering. My counterpoint to this is that there is a massive sub-multitude of sources of suffering that do not affect evolution in any way because they are too transient to effect any serious selection pressure.
I’m still confused about your critique, so let me ask you directly: In the scenario outlined by the OP, do you expect humans to eventually evolve to stop feeling pain from electrical shocks?
Eventually—sure. But for that eventuality to take place, the “electrical shock tyranny” would have to be more resilient than any political faction we’ve known of and persist for thousands of year. I doubt that this would be possible.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough. My critique refers to your point about scenarios where humans evolve like a dystopia not being applicable because if it were, suffering should be a rare occurence—if I understand you correctly, you’re stating that if we could evolve to like dystopias, by this point in time we would have evolved to either avoid or like any source of suffering. My counterpoint to this is that there is a massive sub-multitude of sources of suffering that do not affect evolution in any way because they are too transient to effect any serious selection pressure.
I’m still confused about your critique, so let me ask you directly: In the scenario outlined by the OP, do you expect humans to eventually evolve to stop feeling pain from electrical shocks?
Eventually—sure. But for that eventuality to take place, the “electrical shock tyranny” would have to be more resilient than any political faction we’ve known of and persist for thousands of year. I doubt that this would be possible.