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I have a completely different world view. Just like you build muscle strength through weight resistance, you build mental strength through overcoming (or just

• bena 8y ago
  That's not true though. Given the exact same suffering, two people who have had similar lives will react in different ways. One may break down completely, one may soldier through. Suffering doesn't build character, it reveals it. You're doing the very thing I was saying we do too much of: glorifying suffering. You're also trying to dismiss me by saying what I'm saying is opinion while also trying to say that I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, then it's not technically an opinion I hold. It's just bad information. But you posit that you build mental strength through adversity without actually demonstrating that it's true. Then you claim my position is that I don't value the growth or feel it is worth suffering. That is not what I said. That is a deliberate misrepresentation of what I was saying. I was saying suffering does not teach anything special that cannot be learned elsewhere. I also like how you choose to engage me, rather than the people who shared personal anecdotes of suffering without being granted any special wisdom or knowledge, effectively saying what I said: suffering is not a teacher, suffering is just suffering.