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From: "Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@btinternet.com>
> Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
> > All suffering is suffering "before death."
>
> Such an optimist!
Huh? Why?
>
> > Are you arguing that the greater the proximity of human
> > suffering to the moment of death, the less "bad" it is?
>
> Sort of. Death negates all experience. Suffering is "bad"
> not because it hurts, but because it has long-term effects,
> both psychological and physical. Death isn't then end of
> the final chapter in the literary masterpiece that was your
> life; it's a book burning party.
Why are long-term effects bad and not short-term effects?
You seem to be arguing that things are only bad if they have an effect down
the road sometime...?
--::jason.joel.thompson:: ::founder::
www.wildghost.com
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