This is not suffering. It is strain (severe and/or excessive demand on the strength, resources, or abilities of someone or something). Suffering has to do with pain, distress or hardship. Strain is physical. Suffering can be both physical and mental.going to the gym and lifting weights will cause a person to get buff and strong through suffering. — 64bithuman
t is also true that often the poor suffer tremendously and work very hard only to die destitute. — 64bithuman
This is kind of what I'm trying to talk about, our expectation that suffering inherently holds meaning — 64bithuman
. I do not agree that modern Western culture is all about the avoidance of suffering. — 64bithuman
I would argue that the drive of consumer capitalism is not strictly to eliminate suffering, but rather to rise to opulence, — 64bithuman
Also as a sidebar to a sidebar, I don't think that technology has been developed predominantly to pamper the human body - what about missiles, medicine, etc. — 64bithuman
ot exactly, it's a little complicated and hard to reduce to short sentences. — 64bithuman
But honesty, as Billy Joel once said, is such a lonely word. — 64bithuman
But honesty, as Billy Joel once said, is such a lonely word. — 64bithuman
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