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Pain, Wisdom and Mercy

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Is There a Tendency to Say, I Am in a Kind of Pain?

In the face of criticism, was there ever a temptation to say, i am in a kind of pain that would shake you trolls to your knees? I don't think it ever came out. There is definitely a sense in which having a intensely physicalized form of suffering can alienate you from people who complain of suffering in ways that are less physicalized. A but that alienation is probably a big mistake. And really it should just engender a kind of wide ranging sympathy, even if in the heat of argument, it doesn't always immediately do that. With wrath after this.

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