Exactly. 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.

Exactly. 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.