>>10082727_YGlW36RU4bZ4tW4OUeQTGUReifZ00sSM
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
The idea that extreme suffering has moral priority above anything else seems hard to deny, at least when we are confronted with it directly, either by seeing others endure such suffering or by experiencing it directly ourselves. Extreme suffering begs for urgent action; the hedonically neutral absence of happiness does not.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
