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Copenhauer's avatar

Pain is good, though. You'd have a lot more people dying of dental absesses if not for pain. Could be lepers don't know how good they've got it.

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

Sure, pain can be instrumentally good, but it's intrinsically bad. It is itself bad, but it may lead to greater goods that outweigh the bad.

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