maybe the best things in lifeāobjective goods that only psychologically complex āpersonsā get to experienceāare just more important than creature comforts (even to the point of discounting the significance of agony?). The agony-discounting implication seems implausibly extreme, but Iād give the view a minority seat at the table in my āmoral parliamentā
To my (Nathanās) ears this is either a discontinuous valuation of pleasure and pain across consciousnesses or one that puts far more value at the higher end. In this way the improvement to the life of a human could be worth infinite insects or some arbitrarily large number.
Argument: Nietzschean Perfectionism
@Richard Y Chappellšø theorises that:
To my (Nathanās) ears this is either a discontinuous valuation of pleasure and pain across consciousnesses or one that puts far more value at the higher end. In this way the improvement to the life of a human could be worth infinite insects or some arbitrarily large number.