Devil’s Advocate: the only way to truly minimize suffering is to eliminate all life.
Of course, that also eliminates all serene existence too. I don’t think anyone compassionate would advocate for this modest proposal.
Even QALY’s don’t really work; they don’t capture what proportion of a given life was in suffering vs serenity. It seems to me we should be trying to maximize QALYs/​DALYs, right?
[Apologies if this is a noob question; I looked around but couldn’t find anything that satisfactorily addressed this.]
Devil’s Advocate: the only way to truly minimize suffering is to eliminate all life.
Of course, that also eliminates all serene existence too. I don’t think anyone compassionate would advocate for this modest proposal.
Even QALY’s don’t really work; they don’t capture what proportion of a given life was in suffering vs serenity. It seems to me we should be trying to maximize QALYs/​DALYs, right?
[Apologies if this is a noob question; I looked around but couldn’t find anything that satisfactorily addressed this.]