There’s a defeasible presumption that if I project matter and/or energy into you, and that directly causes you to suffer, I’m in the moral wrong.
Nope. Suffering is not a blank check to control a shared environment. And you recognize that as such later on:
we allow people to inflict certain levels of noise, pollution, etc., on each other. But this doesn’t mean that everything allowed under the law—even an optimal law—is morally OK.
we allow people to inflict certain levels of noise, pollution, etc., on each other.
But this doesn’t mean that everything allowed under the law—even an optimal law—is morally OK.
Yes. If you’re not a theocrat, legal and moral are not the same things.
Nope. Suffering is not a blank check to control a shared environment. And you recognize that as such later on:
Yes. If you’re not a theocrat, legal and moral are not the same things.