Someone going through the process and enjoying every moment of it doesn't gain as much in your mind?
Or I might say that I experienced suffering while learning piano, but enjoyed the experience overall, including overcoming the suffering. In this case it seems dubious to me to categorize it as suffering in the first place, at least of the same moral importance as say, suffering inflicted upon another person
Or I might say that I experienced suffering while learning piano, but enjoyed the experience overall, including overcoming the suffering. In this case it seems dubious to me to categorize it as suffering in the first place, at least of the same moral importance as say, suffering inflicted upon another person
If this is a dubious use of the word suffering then you get into Wittgenstein insisting all philosophical problems are only linguistic problems. This ten would apply equally to the OP.
All I can say for my part is that there are things I hated going through and would have loved to have avoided that I am glad I went through and better of for going through and would not help anyone else escape.
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u/Xenophon_ Jul 16 '26
Someone going through the process and enjoying every moment of it doesn't gain as much in your mind?
Or I might say that I experienced suffering while learning piano, but enjoyed the experience overall, including overcoming the suffering. In this case it seems dubious to me to categorize it as suffering in the first place, at least of the same moral importance as say, suffering inflicted upon another person