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Well, criminal justice and medicine and the declaration of human rights are all there to prevent suffering, yet there is immense suffering in the worl...

Life appeared pointless to Camus because he was depressed.

We have it in common at first, it's intense suffering that drives you away from it. "It seems also that we suffer when we interpret something as drivi...

It's not that no one should ever feel bad, but a bunch of people suffer a lot with nothing positive to make up for it. Working out can make you feel b...

While different things make different people suffer, we do all seem to have a common ground, that of desiring to live (except in cases where someone s...

I would say that we are in a position to make someone feel something if we have come to an understanding of what they desire, believe, and how what th...

Yes blindly following our feelings can cause a lot of suffering. By taking into account our feelings and that of others I didn't mean to blindly follo...

True, but even if we have the power to not suffer, we still need to be aware of how what we do impact what others feel, otherwise this can become an e...

Language is a limited tool to communicate, to show others what we experience, and to experience what others experience. How do I know whether the word...

I don't agree with that widespread belief that life is pointless. The very notion of point, of purpose, stems from wanting, from feeling a desire. Som...

If it has value to you then it has value to you. If it doesn't then it doesn't. There is nothing to prove. If you feel a flower has value to you, but ...

I am eating this cake? Why? Because I want to eat it. Why? Because it tastes good and I want to eat what tastes good. Why? Because it makes me feel go...

I would say depression is the disconnect between you and your desires. When you don't feel depressed you have desires, goals you strive for. Feeling t...

Deep down any rational justification is based on a feeling. Whatever rationality we come up with to justify acting in some way to reach a goal, that g...

Thanks for the reply. I would say depression and overpopulation are both the product of fear, because of fear we only care about ourselves and not oth...

I think the very label of evil is responsible in itself for a lot of suffering. Apposing that label to someone is used to justify doing the worst atro...

Yes, probably, but it isn't wanting something that causes suffering, it is wanting something and believing you can't have it. In the long text in the ...

Yes thinking is responsible for some suffering. But is it merely the comparison between the sunny day in the woods and your suburban neighborhood that...

I didn't say editing our beliefs was an easy process, it isn't precisely because beliefs determine how we think, what we do and how we feel. When you ...