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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I don't have a problem with the term 'suffering' - I think I have experienced it to some extent; and I think I have seen it in others - e.g. witnessing sufferers trying to avoid what makes them suffer (snatching hand out of fire etc.). Although maybe they just acted as if they were suffering, but weren't actually (Descartes view).
'Suffering' is a subjective term, but I don't think it's any more problematic than other subjective words.
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Well - I have a problem with understanding the term "suffering". What does it
mean in this context? I haven't read Peter Singer. You refer to your own experience - what constitutes "suffering" to you, and is it the same as the "suffering" that Peter Singer writes about (I presume he does). Without a definition it's meaningless to discuss the morality of the relief - or not - of the hypothetical "suffering" of other living things.