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Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

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The Individuality of Suffering

I was curious about the individuality of it, and if you dig into it, because, for example, the one that i have never understood is pain food. I've never understood that when people say, let's have hot wings, or let's put hot sauce on. So how individualized is this idea of the need of pain, as well as the way we define kind of pleasure? And my answers, i don't tto foggiest idean. There's been no good research on this questionand the answers aren't always what you expect them to be.

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