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#402 - Paul Bloom - Why Pain & Suffering Are Necessary For A Good Life
Modern Wisdom
Are You Not Signalling Strength?
One way to get a pleasure from suffering is the pleasure of a good name, jeremy bentham's term of good reputation. Sometimes we choose to suffer to impress others with how tough we are. A different thing is when people will cut themselves or harm themselves as a cry for help. See how you have a a signalling as one thing, you have the joy of mastery. And this is one important contrast i make in the book which is absolutly critical. As i'm tom a chosen sufferingco suffering, bad stuff that happens you, is a very different thing.
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