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Are pain and suffering positive values, to be regarded as opportunities to display virtue and in accordance to the nature of humanity, and is the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure a vice?
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May 21st, 2013
This is a question seeking an objective response.
It is in general.
Respectfully, if you quote Scripture, I will flag the answer as not helpful. Mystical messages from The Infinite Beyond are not evidence of human nature.
Epicurius believed that everything was made up of small particles, randomly assembled, and randomly dispersed, and that the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain were primary human virtues. His ideas were suppressed from about the 4th century to the 14th century.
They were suppressed either because he was objectively wrong, or because his ideas were inconvenient.
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