> Trying to pretend we can erase any and all suffering we may cause ever is a fruitless effort.
I wouldn't be so sure. Eduard Hartmann came up with a solution in the 19th century.
https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...
I wouldn't be so sure. Eduard Hartmann came up with a solution in the 19th century.
https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Role_in_the_philos...
It's frustrating that your article brushes off the philosophy as "unimaginably wrong" so easily with some hand wave of techno-utopian "genetic engineering". Benatar's writing takes pains to address why the situation cannot fundamentally be solved, especially via naive scientism.
Is that any better? That sort of thing makes me think first of the horrifying disorder where people are unable to feel pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...
And Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands" which is sort of a story of another kind of paperclip maximization.