this is a reason why I sometimes feel sad about social justice. In social justice, bad experiences are not sacred - they must be eliminated. The sense of trauma or grief are treated like enemies instead of important, solemn friends. Pain is excised like a tumor.
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I do not think that people find meaning in painful things when they know they could have easily been avoided. Social justice is exactly that: avoiding the pain that can easily be avoided. That way, there still will be adversity, and it will be real, not fabricated.
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How on earth could we say some pain is ‘real’ and some fabricated? If I get cancer, but suffer greatly because the appropriate treatment didn’t exist, is that fundamentally different from if I get cancer but the market dynamics/social hierarchies prevent me from affording it?
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But what is peace but the space that is revealed in the absence of bad experience? And what is growth apart from an increased ability to live peacefully with oneself and others? Isn't the utility of the bad experience simply being better able to handle them later?
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Yeah this is a pretty functional definition of sacred, but I think that’s the one I believe in.
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Agreed. Pain is humbling. When everything feels hunky-dory, we can become arrogant, complacent or indifferent to the suffering of others. Bad experiences help cut through any sense of superiority or entitlement, and remind us that comfort isn't our birthright.
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Don't mean to be harsh. It seems like sentiment someone whose bad experiences are limited to something that does not cripple a person in the inside. 1. NOTHING is sacred. 2. It depends. Some bad experiences cause damage that no "growth" or "meaning" can make it worth it.
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Bad experiences are sacred. Crippling ones are not. I can get one board with that.
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