[MD] The End of Faith Ethics

[Heather Perella]

> [Platt]
> I think it suggests that it would be wrong to
> completely eliminate suffering.
 
> [Arlo]
> I've always had a problem with the imprecision of
> Pirsig's words you 
> quoted. I certainly agree that in order to know love
> we must know 
> loss, in order to feel joy we must also feel
> sadness. But a blanket 
> statement about "suffering" being necessary for
> species to evolve 
> leaves me wondering about the role of medicine and
> treating...


SA:  Or, suffering is lasting, and we better the world
by trying to always ease suffering, and to always,
yes, always rid suffering with compassion, yet, we
find suffering still continues.  It is an on-going
process.


snowy white woods,
SA


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