For some small amount of intense suffering, there is always some sufficiently large amount of moderate suffering such that the intense suffering is preferable.
To be clear, I think this premise is one way of distilling and clarifying the (or ‘a’) crux of my argument and if I wind up convinced that the whole argument is wrong, it will probably be because I am convinced of premise 2 or something very similar
I see, I took the chart under “The compensation schedule’s structure” to imply that the Axiom of Continuity held for suffering, based on the fact that the X axis shows suffering measured on a cardinal scale.
If you reject Continuity for suffering then I don’t think your assumptions are self-contradictory.
I do not accept premise 2:
To be clear, I think this premise is one way of distilling and clarifying the (or ‘a’) crux of my argument and if I wind up convinced that the whole argument is wrong, it will probably be because I am convinced of premise 2 or something very similar
I see, I took the chart under “The compensation schedule’s structure” to imply that the Axiom of Continuity held for suffering, based on the fact that the X axis shows suffering measured on a cardinal scale.
If you reject Continuity for suffering then I don’t think your assumptions are self-contradictory.