I would gladly suffer a hundred years of pain if it was the only way for me to live one more good day. I think a world where a thousand suffer but one lives a good life is vastly superior to a world in which only ten suffer but none live a good life. Good is a positive quality. But suffering is a zero quality. The absence of a thing, rather than the negative form. So, no matter how much suffering there is, it never offsets even the smallest amount of good.

This is a view that came naturally to me, but it isn't a view I've noticed others share.

The experience of pain could be taken to be the negative form of pleasure, but I see the subjective experience of pleasure and pain as valueless of themselves. Pleasure is not a part of the good, at least not simply by its nature. Pain is bad only insofar as it inhibits a person's ability to experience the good.

This is the first time I've written about this so my terminology is all over the place and my ideas are certainly poorly formed.