PLEASE READ THIS. I know it is long, but it would mean alot to me. thank you.
What started out as a self reasoning for not taking anti-depressants, turned in a whole different direction after a discussion with courtney in which i spoke of necessary violence. Anyway, this is what i really wanted to start a journal for, to share some philosophy. Even if you have no thoughts on it, please comment if you read it. Even if you
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Of course, pain provides that contrast so necessary for real pleasure. Negative feelings often make all positive feelings more alarmingly enjoyable. Consider, for instance, the weather. The beautiful sunshine, blue sky, et caetera, of a pleasant day would lose their significance if they were more common. Were such a weather sequence repeated day after day, it would surely effect great complaints from many. Imagine the mundaneness! Forsooth, it is pervasive dismality that renders the rare days of beauty so pleasant. A series of rainy days will create within one a desire for a change. The relative infrequency of the nice days creates in the observer a joy that causes him to cherish those days. In this example, the pain of poor weather greatly alleviates the pain of boringly similar weather.
If there was no bad, good things would be pointless and annoying...
Pain builds up. Improvement of any kind without it is truly unthinkable. Only through the painful breakdown of the muscles can one build strength, only through humblingly painful criticism can one accrue skill, and only through painful trials can one gain wisdom. In each of these cases, pain serves to increase strength and usher out weakness. In this manner, the pain induced by exercise or critique works against the malevolent pain of indolence or fatuity. It is the force that sets right the wrongs brought on by poor mental and physical health.
We have to go through pain to grow both physically, mentally, and emotionally
Dearth of pain would leave naught but an all-encompassing sameness, for pain is the essence of uniquity. Imagine a world bereft of all manner of physical and emotional pain. Each would necessarily be similar to others; none could be superior to another, because the superior would cause the inferior to feel emotional anguish. So much for extraordinary people. Every difference incites some type of jealousy and hurt. Thus, a world devoid of pain must also be devoid of individuals. Such would, in turn, eliminate all semblance of competition, and, of course, glory. Indeed, both are founded upon an alternating cycle of pain and pleasure. Pain yields heroes and champions; conversely, its absence yields the lack thereof. Every competitor derives pleasure from his sport or hobby not only by doing well but also by beating others. Great people are those who endure and overcome pain. They garner respect by being strong. Strength, as aforementioned, is inextricable from pain.
If there was no pain in the world, we'd all be exactly the same because every difference causes pain to someone else in some roundabout way or other
Pain makes each different and provides each with a desirable and interesting challenge. It conquers the pains of conformity and boredom. Every defeat initially pains the loser, but it pleases the victor and drives the loser toward ultimate success by motivating him to improve. Strip the world of pain and create a class of unspectacular and world-weary sheep. So it must be.
If you take away pain, you make everyone "sheep"
Though these analogies and inferences may seem blatant and trite, they are nonetheless vital. They combine to illustrate the fact that ceaseless pleasure has but little meaning, that painlessness indicates weakness, and that ease produces collective misery. All may not be bright, but the bright is more meaningful for the darkness. Often, it is pain in small instances that reverses the effects of widespread pain.
Summary of everything said above.
I have hitherto refrained from referencing justice so as to sufficiently demonstrate that pain has its purposes. Reason is clear on the issue of justice: it, too, requires pain.
For justice to be had, there must be pain
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Explanation of the fact that humans are bad and what criminals are: Extremely bad
The situation demands a solution. Some may propound nonviolence and painlessness, claiming these to be the opposite - and therefore, the solution - of violence and pain. This discussion, however, has clearly demonstrated that good pain - and not no pain - is the opposite of bad pain. Leniency and inaction (or unfittingly mild action) do nothing save perpetuate the trend of violence. Nay, persistent malignance cannot be countered by negligence or mercy, but rather by pain of the right sort.
Explains that a "non-violence" policy is stupid and does nothing to stop above mentioned criminals
The dividing line between these two pains may seem tenuous; it is not so. To the dullard, the pains may appear totally equal; they are not thus. The pains, though intended to be equal in magnitude, are opposite in direction. The first type, malice driven pain, is inflicted by one upon the many, with the intention of harming. The second type, reproof driven pain, is directed by the many against offenders, with the intention of protecting their collective entity. The goal of the latter is justice.
Explains the difference between criminal pain and justice pain
Ignoring the fiend - though it may, peradventure, be considered kind - is in fact an act of ultimate diabolicality, for it allows mischief to proliferate and thereby leads to even more pain. The same holds true in both large and small cases: ne'er-do-wells abound, spreading their badness, and the righteous must not condone their tyranny. Here one can see the crowning greatness of pain - its capacity to both correct and protect.
Ignoring bad things makes them worse. There are a bunch of bad people whose asses demand to be justiced
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