An occasional series of pain-pensées- — from the addicted and formerly addicted.
Somewhere along the way we all started to confuse — disastrously — the eradication of pain with the eradication of suffering. Freedom from suffering should, indeed, be a basic human right. No one should have to endure unbearable cancerous or post-operative pain, and the patients-rights movement was an undeniable marker of progress. Somehow that turned into let there never be a moment of discomfort. The problem there, of course, is that any mild irritant can become unbearable. We build no tolerance to life.
February 4th, 2019 at 10:42AM
“Somehow that turned into let there never be a moment of discomfort.”
nonsense