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27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 August 2009 05:57AM

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Comment author: anonym 06 August 2009 03:59:12AM 0 points [-]

in that case, pain serves a useful purpose

Right, which was exactly my point: not every instance of pain should be classified as bad, and so it doesn't make sense to say the general phenomenon is "unconditionally bad, in all cases, with no exceptions", which is exactly what Bongo implicitly asserted.