Because suffering is bad, no matter who the person suffering is. Even if a person has caused a lot of suffering in the past, causing that person to suffer does not undo their actions, but rather increases the suffering in this world, when our goal should be to reduce it as much as possible. The idea that some people deserve to suffer is cerainly one of the reasons we can't have nice things.
I personally would like to agree with you because I prefer universalism, and I think the alternative, utilitarianism, leads to extremely bad outcomes in practice, despite seeming like a pragmatic option in theory.
However, is it perhaps also true that another one of the reasons we cannot have nice things is because we cannot practically do away with those who would themselves never hesitate to increase the net suffering of humanity if it benefited themselves?
Because suffering is bad, no matter who the person suffering is. Even if a person has caused a lot of suffering in the past, causing that person to suffer does not undo their actions, but rather increases the suffering in this world, when our goal should be to reduce it as much as possible. The idea that some people deserve to suffer is cerainly one of the reasons we can't have nice things.
I personally would like to agree with you because I prefer universalism, and I think the alternative, utilitarianism, leads to extremely bad outcomes in practice, despite seeming like a pragmatic option in theory.
However, is it perhaps also true that another one of the reasons we cannot have nice things is because we cannot practically do away with those who would themselves never hesitate to increase the net suffering of humanity if it benefited themselves?
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