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The first was what motivated me to write the book, which was: I was very interested in kind of paradoxical pleasures we have, like when we eat spicy foods or lie in a hot bath, or some of us go for a long run, do crossword puzzles, see scary movies, just do things which involve work and effort and struggle and a bit of pain.
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I think there's two very different roles that suffering has as part of a good life. Paul Bloom: It does, and that's why I got interested in the topic. * As an Amazon Associate, Econlib earns from qualifying purchases.
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It can also come from social conditions such as slavery, humiliating poverty, imprisonment, deprivation of freedom, torture by an enemy,- and also from religious conditions like a sense of abandonment by God. Suffering comes from loneliness, meaninglessness, real physical pain, a sense of emptiness despair, depression. It is difficult, troublesome, worrisome, involves sacrifice of time and great effort, but I would not call it ‘suffering’, Suffering is something quite different as I understand it. The idea that raising children is ‘suffering’ seems to me in some way a mis-categorization. I found the basic premise of the beginning of this discussion contradictory to my own experience.