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My thoughts

this book (short story i should say) poses the ever green ethical conundrum- is the suffering one person justified if it brings a greater good/happiness to every other person ever. several moral philosophers/authors have asked this question before and while the gut instinct is always no- one does have that tiny little doubt at the back of their head that isn't the greater good of the society far more valuable than the happiness of a single person? but again can one's moral conscience actually allow them to subject someone to eternal damnation? i don't think so but this is what i will be thinking about tonight.....