(November 5, 2011 at 10:31 pm)Vaginasaur Wrote:(November 5, 2011 at 10:14 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Why does suffering matter?This question saddens me, I'm sure your suffering matters to you. Suffering gives us our empathetic nature, suffering is what makes us care for each other, suffering is what makes this species hope for better days, if there's anything that matters in this universe, it's suffering and the conscious welfare of all life. It's the only thing of value to our existence, nothing else matters. If you didn't have suffering, you wouldn't know what was pleasurable, you wouldn't know what was beautiful, you wouldn't know what virtues were. Suffering defines everything in our life, without it we wouldn't exist.
I agree with this as someone who has suffered from depression his whole life, however, you said that suffering matters in response to my question as to why you care about who comes into this world. So bringing up my suffering is irrelevant as you still have yet to address why you even care who suffers, and if you do, how that us not giving your life a purpose.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
