If it doesn't kill you | Susie Orbach, Anders Sandberg, and Havl Carel
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is It Possible to Eliminate Suffering?
I think about cultural and political suffering as being very, very cruel. I would love us to be able to reform them so that we don't live in such deep inequalities. And the third, this idea that we can rid ourselves of suffering, what we want to do is to practice philosophy in a way that helps us reduce suffering. But that complete eradication is an ideal. It's not something we can hope to reach by doing a little bit of meditation. So again, I think a healthy dose of realism is helpful here.
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