If it doesn't kill you | Susie Orbach, Anders Sandberg, and Havl Carel
Philosophy For Our Times
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Getting Rid of Suffering
Some forms of suffering are instrumental. If I hurt myself, pain signals should not just tell me that I need to be careful about with the wounded part of my body but also that I should definitely stop doing whatever is hurting it. There is an emotional component to pain which is where it ties up with actual suffering rather than just telling me that oh I stopped my phone. So it seems like although some sufferings are tied in with good things and it's a package in other ways it isn't. But even you think you can't get rid of all suffering for the reasons that Javier have explained.
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