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Because you wouldn't want to be subjected to suffering yourself. It's not complicated. All humans everywhere desire the end of their own suffering. We're awful
by emptysongglass 5y ago
Because you wouldn't want to be subjected to suffering yourself. It's not complicated.
All humans everywhere desire the end of their own suffering. We're awful at minimizing it but you can see our hamfisted attempts in our seeking out of pleasures and avoidance of activities which are unpleasant, stressful, and painful.
When we observe other humans/animals hurting most of us feel with what is suffering.
- hairofadog 5y agoExactly. If anyone reading this is puzzled about whether reduction of suffering is worth striving for, you only need to observe yourself when you are suffering. Do you want more suffering or less suffering? I suppose a person could argue that the universe is just a bunch of atoms and that living beings and their suffering is just chemicals behaving in a certain way and in that sense it doesn’t matter any more than any other chemical reaction but it seems like that argument would also render the concept of “striving” to be moot.