Look just bear with me, so there’s this guy right? That has like a brain injury or something so he can’t feel good but if he says the n-word it’s like a billion red giant suns go supernova in his brain. We’re talking ego shattering, face of god kind of joy, absolute rapture beyond time and space reverberating through his consciousness in a moment forever. And like, he’s white, but would it be ok? But like what if you’ve never said the n-word or maybe you have but you aren’t saying it right now and there’s like a small chance that you’re that guy because of multiverse theory or something. Shouldn’t you be allowed to say it just to check? Cause like the possibility of infinite hedons and shit? Like can I please say the n-word?
I’m gonna say it.
Noid.
Naw, not this time.
Hear me out, okay?
Slavery might be bad for the slave but the joy the slave owner gets is more than the pain caused to the slave (probably), so that means slavery is the rational thing to do.
Particularly if you discount the relative suffering of the slave based on the hypothetical sub-par happiness they would receive if free. We established these metrics by asking a bunch of white europeans if they would enjoy traditional lifestyles of their slaves and they said no.