Sure there is a small chance, but the question is: what can we do about it and will the opportunity cost be justifiable? And for the same reason that Pascal’s Wager fails, we can’t just arbitrarily say “doing this may reduce suffering” and think it justifies the action, since the reversal “doing this may increase suffering” plausibly offsets it.
Sure there is a small chance, but the question is: what can we do about it and will the opportunity cost be justifiable? And for the same reason that Pascal’s Wager fails, we can’t just arbitrarily say “doing this may reduce suffering” and think it justifies the action, since the reversal “doing this may increase suffering” plausibly offsets it.