atorm comments on Pain - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Alicorn 02 August 2009 07:12PM

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Comment author: atorm 05 October 2011 08:22:00PM 0 points [-]

I think it's enough to reduce it to "Pain produces suffering." Suffering is bad (it just is, that's all, your question is stupid), although it can be coupled with good things, like behaviour-modification. Pain that doesn't produce suffering isn't bad.