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Begs the question, what is "fair" suffering? I don't think anyone argues that terrible suffering you described is a good thing, but rather that suffering is en
by slothtrop 5y ago
Begs the question, what is "fair" suffering?
I don't think anyone argues that terrible suffering you described is a good thing, but rather that suffering is endemic to living. We don't get to decide how much happens to us, but we can work towards a world that minimizes avoidable extreme pain and injustice.
- legrande 5y agoI meant it in the Buddhist sense of a lotus flower not being able to grow on a bed of marble, it needs its roots buried in dirty mud. Some amount of adversity is needed in order to grow and build character.
- malfist 5y agoThat doesn't make any sense. To a lotus, mud isn't adversity, it's its preferred growing environment. A bed of marble would be it's adversity, and as you pointed out there, it doesn't build character in a bed of marble.