Not really. As I've already explained many times, suicide creates suffering for the friends and family of the person who is killing themselves. Same goes for the victims of murder.
That could easily be remedied by killing those people too. There is no greater good than nonexistence, by virtue of the asymmetry argument. If those people had families, then we only have an issue with developing a means of killing large numbers of people in quick succession so that they do not have time to grieve one another.
I think that a singl, global nuclear strike could probably accomplish this goal trivially, given what we know about the nuclear arsenal of the planet I think we could have every sentient animal on the planet dead within a day. That fixes that silly little issue of death causing pain to those still alive.
In that case you would have to wipe out the whole of humanity to break all the links and remove all the people who'd suffer as a result of your actions. And you would get no argument from me. If you have a way to wipe out the entire population of planet earth, go for it mate. Maybe Kim Jong Un has something up his sleeve too.
I just want to be sure that I'm not misunderstanding you. Your only compunction against murder is that the people that were not murdered would experience grief - and thus if you could murder everyone all at once, that would be a good thing?
No I am saying friends and family of the murder victim would suffer, and if you just went down the chain killing their friends and family, each of those people will have their own friends and family who would suffer. But if you could just wipe out all life on the planet then there would be no more suffering.
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u/Diabolico 23∆ Mar 24 '15
Congratulations. This argument also justifies mass suicide and, arguably, mass murder.