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Are those really suffering of the same degree though? Surely the ennui of unexamined comfort is preferable to the agony of war and starvation--and an individual
by homonculus1 7y ago
Are those really suffering of the same degree though? Surely the ennui of unexamined comfort is preferable to the agony of war and starvation--and an individual has almost total power to solve the former, effectively nil against the latter.
- yters 7y agoI totally agree with you. Comfortable suffering certainly seems preferable to unbearable pain, but maybe is not preferable to a daily struggle. My point is eliminating physical suffering does not eliminate existential suffering, whereas eliminating existential suffering with ultimate meaning can in a certain way eliminate physical suffering. For example, many Christians, and people in other religions and philosophies, in the past and even today voluntarily undergo tremendous torture and painful executions because they've found a profound relief for the existential suffering.