not at ONE moment did I know where this hypothetical was going

Equal personal burden is the only answer. The number of people in each village is irrelevant. Each individual person doesn’t feel the suffering of the group, they feel the suffering of themselves.

Joe philosophy videos are genuinely crazy interesting

The obvious answer is create a religion based around smallville being highborn and holy while the largeburg is full of sinners or something

Three best ACTUAL options, build a bridge, cut down the cacti or choose like five officials to go to the meetings

I'm glad I found out you exist through youtube, you mightve saved me from something i really dont want to do but I hope youre doing great

im a cactus

Real solution is to not tell the people that they feel different amounts of pain it will make things a lot simpler

These philosophy vods go so hard playing in the background while i work. Thanks Mr Bart

How do we even know a monster emerges if the ritual isn’t completed? Who would live to tell the tale in a previous age?

Or maybe they can band together and get rid of the cacti or do a ritual for it

Don’t have separate towns so we don’t have to go on torture quest to save the world

I say that they should move the meeting into the cacti that way everyone can walk less distance and share the agony in the presence of others.

They got skyscrapers , but they don't have cars

you forgot the secret third option is the meeting is held in the cactus field, everyone gets hurt 100% of the time

Something that I think you still have to consider is that the fate of the whole world is at stake in this scenario. To me, that would make it easier to decide to go through with it.

25/75 definitely the best option but random voter would probably end up being relatively fair over time considering people aren’t horrible

Small village walks the beginning of the year and end of the year (2 months) to show respect for the larger village who walks the remaining 10 months

"i need to know how painful it is for the large people

10:33 the forbidden 3/5ths compromise… wait this is the better version of it never mind