Or is this just one of those things you’re not supposed to think too hard about?
(Edit) lmao, people who’ve never heard this mantra whenever you say that maybe there should be less suffering in the world… I envy you.
Or is this just one of those things you’re not supposed to think too hard about?
(Edit) lmao, people who’ve never heard this mantra whenever you say that maybe there should be less suffering in the world… I envy you.
No, it’s not. It’s saying that any amount of suffering is bad, but a tolerable amount of suffering can have good secondary effects (but this is not guaranteed, it’s circumstantial). The secondary good doesn’t mean that the bad part didn’t happen.
So we agree. Suffering has both good and bad parts.
So you can’t say suffering is (always) bad, because it can have good (secondary) effects.
Goodness in one aspect doesn’t cancel badness in another…
It can be always bad AND sometimes good.
I never said they’d “cancel” whatever that means.
yeah we agree suffering can be both good and bad.