Mission Statement of BLTC Research - BLTC was founded to promote paradise engineering Paradise Engineering / The Hedonistic Imperative - How genetic engineering and nanotechnology will enable us to get rid of suffering in all sentient life. Negative utilitarianism, by David Pearce - Challenges the moral symmetry of pleasure and pain. Most philosophers jump to the conclusion that it would justify erasing the world were that the only way to eradicate suffering - however it is a little more complicated than that. Negativity - Short essay - some critical thoughts on negative utilitarianism: proposing an understanding of "negative" as a matter of degree. Edmund Gurney (1847 - 1888) - Brief summary of the life of the first negative utilitarian, by Derek Greatrex. The Least Suffering for the Smallest Number - A negative utilitarian approach to the problem of ethical priorities questioning the Copenhagen consensus.