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Maybe qualifying it helps: Nobody is going to reasonably suffer from not being able to take the plane to go on a vacation.
by luckylion 6y ago
Maybe qualifying it helps: Nobody is going to reasonably suffer from not being able to take the plane to go on a vacation.
- rini17 6y agoI already know some who did suffer (perhaps unreasonably but that's in the end irrelevant).
- luckylion 6y agoPerhaps "suffer" isn't great here, because it's used coloquially as "being affected" and to literally suffer because of something. People will be affected, absolutely. And some people might also suffer from not being able to have an international vacation. But probably not reasonably so, i.e. a reasonable person would not suffer in that situation. You can suffer unreasonably, and you're right, it's irrelevant to the question of "does suffering exist", but it's very relevant to the question of "should we do something about it as society". If it's reasonable, probably. Otherwise that's between an individual and their therapist.
- logicchains 6y ago>Nobody is going to reasonably suffer Your definition of reasonable is not universal. For many people, life is for living, not for sacrificing worldly pleasures to eke out as long an existence as possible.
- JohnBooty 6y agoThis isn't about sacrificing all worldly pleasures or even all vacations. It's about perhaps rethinking whether one needs to fly so often for one's vacations.
- sct202 6y agoA lot of people don't live on the same continent that they were born on and vacations are the only time they get to see their families.