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> Something our general culture ain't great at. What culture is good at it? People in general try to avoid pain. This tendency is not unique to our culture,
by legutierr 3y ago
> Something our general culture ain't great at.
What culture is good at it? People in general try to avoid pain. This tendency is not unique to our culture, is it?
- bobthepanda 3y agoThe US is uniquely oriented around pain elimination. For example, the opioid epidemic ravaging the US after the overprescription of painkillers is absent in most European and Asian countries, because they were not optimizing patient outcomes for pain elimination.
- epicureanideal 3y agoIt may also be that working conditions, poverty, lack of vacation, and differences in the practice of medicine, put Americans in more physical and mental pain than the average European, and so are more likely to turn to painkillers.
- xvilka 3y agoStoicism.