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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments
Modern Wisdom
Is the Pursuit of Pleasure the Same as the Avoidance of Suffering?
There seems to be a good bit of evidence that suggests that humans aren't actually pleasure seekers. They're suffering minimizes. Would you take five minutes the worst suffering imaginable, if afterwards you got five minutes of the greatest pleasure imaginable? Hard to say, but most people say, no. It's kind of not worth it, in a way.
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