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req · 3729 days ago · link · · parent · post: Great personal growth cannot be accomplished without hardship? Hardship makes a person better?
Where are you getting that he thinks we should make bad things happen and make the bad things worse? I've never seen such a sentiment and I think he would be against a person harming themselves, that is not something a strong will does.
Rather, he is saying it is good when people suffer because it proves they have value, that they can endure.
randomuser · 3728 days ago · link ·
"If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy."
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The whole quote gives it a lot more meaning
- To this day you have the choice: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief – and in the last analysis socialists and politicians of all parties have no right to promise their people more than that – or as much displeasure as possible as the price of growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet. If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.