RE: Is 10,000 people suffering identically equal bad as one of them?
November 3, 2010 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2010 at 8:30 am by Violet.)
Evie Wrote:It's not more negative to any sufferer. Not in the slightest tiniest bit. Suffering requires a sufferer. Sufferers suffering identically is identical suffering to all sufferers.
Everyone feels different things, even if the same stimulus is put upon them. Some people will feel annoyance at getting a pinprick... some will feel anger... others will feel amusement... others will cry... another might even enjoy the sensation and do it several more times... and another might even fear the damn thing. It isn't even negative to some people.
And if they really are all suffering 'identically', then the group that has 10,000 people in it still would be happier without suffering that much, and again: "Little negative things are some of the worst... do away with those and most of the population gets happier in an amount that far outweighs the single man's gratitude."
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
