[isolate]

Cutting someone's head off is not necessarily worse for their friends and family than insulting them?

[joesmo]

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

[isolate]

No, but I probably misread yours if you didn't understand my question. I thought you said different kinds of suffering are incomparable, and so I asked about not being able to compare two specific kinds of suffering, murder and insults. (Or rather, acts that can induce suffering and the suffering that results.)

[joesmo]

No, I said you can't compare people's suffering because you can't measure it, regardless of what's causing that suffering.

[isolate]

All I'm doing is trying to examine your claim at the extremes. At the other end, are we able to tell the difference between zero suffering and some suffering?

[lucio]

yes you can, a beaten wife is suffering more than a person who gets insulted. Both are suffering, but the wife is in the worst situation.