I think an important part of what makes their ending so terrifying is that you don’t get to make those stipulations. Or any other stipulations. The Superhappies may or may not follow them, that’s their choice—you just don’t get any say, one way or the other.
Indeed, all situations in which one is powerless share that I think. It makes it frightful, but does it make it wrong? I don’t necessarily think it does. Assuming for the moment that those stipulations stand (for reasons not necessarily related to the story) is pain abolitionism really as bad as it seemingly is represented in the story?
I think an important part of what makes their ending so terrifying is that you don’t get to make those stipulations. Or any other stipulations. The Superhappies may or may not follow them, that’s their choice—you just don’t get any say, one way or the other.
Indeed, all situations in which one is powerless share that I think. It makes it frightful, but does it make it wrong? I don’t necessarily think it does. Assuming for the moment that those stipulations stand (for reasons not necessarily related to the story) is pain abolitionism really as bad as it seemingly is represented in the story?