How Cravings Influence Happiness-vs.-Suffering Trades
Channel: Brian Tomasik
Date: 17/07/2016

This video discusses the common claim that we should consider pleasure to be positively valuable because people are willing to endure suffering in order to achieve it. I examine two passages in Yew-Kwang Ng's "Utilitarianism generalized to include animals" (http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol1/iss7/19/) regarding this topic.

See also the "Negative Utilitarianism FAQ": http://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/nufaq.html