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This is sort of my thought process as well; the universe is unjust as long as suffering exists in any form at all. Whether this has any sort of inherent “meaning” is sort of beside the point, because suffering doesn’t have to have deeper meaning to be horrible in and of itself.

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So you want to eradicate all suffering? You know the easiest way to do that right?

Stop having children? I’ll admit, it’s a very nice idea in theory, even though I don’t plan to follow it myself.

I believe parent comment meant that if all humans were to somehow stop existing at once, there would be no humans suffering.

He has a pretty weak argument though: green also exists. And most experience it directly.

I’m not sure I follow - what do you mean?

Existence and commonality of something does not make something an important topic.

I don't mean to read minds here, but the only way I was able to parse your message is that "something" refers to suffering, and it seems you're implying that suffering exists and is common, but is not necessarily an important topic?

Or did I misunderstand something?

Turn off simulations where the net amount of suffering vs joy is negative? Even if it’s barely a net positive it’s not necessarily worth the suffering.

Though I agree, I'd nitpick "unjust". Suffering could be called just or unjust depending on the situation, but I certainly think everyone can get on board with minimizing/eliminating suffering.

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