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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_dec57502-83b9-4a70-a54e-a9c367fee7c5" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">></span></font>I imagine a common reaction against this idea
would be that it is somehow better or more noble to do it the hard
way, but that is irrational.
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Indeed, arguments around so-called 'dignity' seem to demand an element</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of suffering. But why? What do we get out of it? Part of my project</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">would be to look at this value of suffering to determine its place.</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If, as I strongly suspect is the case, it is yet another instance of</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">our evolutionary heritage plaguing us long after it's shelf-life has</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">expired, then the way would be made clear to go on to show that</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it can not only </span></font></tt><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">be done away with safely, but to the benefit of all. </span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">(Though it still leaves open my original question.)</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> A lot of this is to be found in the work of David Pearce.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Best,</span></font></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Damian U.</span></font></pre>
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