tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441249667051497124.post7230297466937412174..comments2023-10-05T03:13:53.319-07:00Comments on Reducing Suffering: Horror moviesBrian Tomasikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10510289096715716609noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441249667051497124.post-17729294454767502922009-04-10T09:51:00.000-07:002009-04-10T09:51:00.000-07:00I just watch the news for 10 or 15 minutes, and th...I just watch the news for 10 or 15 minutes, and that's usually enough to bring it home. Plus you get to see another aspect of the inanity of the human situation, as some anorexic broadcaster moves facilely from airplane crash to the dog that plays frisbee without a blink (donning the appropriate, shifting facial expressions, of course).metamorphhhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12754527748086296743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441249667051497124.post-58225661232902102392009-04-07T14:31:00.000-07:002009-04-07T14:31:00.000-07:00Hi Anonymous. I do care about emotional suffering ...Hi Anonymous. I do care about emotional suffering as well (and I do wish I knew more about it). In practice, I think it's probably the case that it makes sense to focus on physical suffering because there's just a lot more of it out there -- I would guess that a lot of animal suffering is physical, and the amount of animal suffering, at least on earth but plausibly throughout the universe, outnumbers human suffering by several orders of magnitude.<BR/><BR/>Of course, if hell exists and only humans can go there, I suppose the opposite would be true. But a lot of the pain of a (fiery) hell would be physical anyway.Brian Tomasikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510289096715716609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441249667051497124.post-55942578202105343202009-04-06T23:21:00.000-07:002009-04-06T23:21:00.000-07:00Do you view emotional pain as suffering worth unde...Do you view emotional pain as suffering worth understanding, or is your pain fetish restricted to physical pain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441249667051497124.post-65838792948901828932009-03-16T13:55:00.000-07:002009-03-16T13:55:00.000-07:00Confined isolation seems to be much more intense a...Confined isolation seems to be much more intense and disorienting than people tend to imagine. Here is a link to a recent BBC documentary that you may want to track down: <BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/isolation/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com