rainbow walking

rw: Very well, my friend, it has been, for me, a pleasurable meeting of minds and I hope not the last of such pleasures. I would like to take this opportunity to express my very opinionated, and biased, view on the subject of suffering, just to give you some food for further thought, if you will.

I am often amused, and somewhat amazed, at how blatantly hypocritical humans can be towards the subject of suffering. It is clear from any rudimentary observation how much benefit is derived from the consequences of evil and suffering. I suppose people would rather not look this glaring fact in the eyes or in the mirror of their lives because it tends not to engender a mentally healthy view of their/our world. Such benefits as are derived either directly, as in the case of the prison guard being paid a higher salary than a young doctor during his internship, and indirectly, as in the case of patients recieving treatments that took years to develop at the expense of the terminally ill.

Perhaps it would be a good thing, and maybe it is even time, that some few of us take a determined position to rub mankind's noses in this undeniable fact of our reality. It might inspire a few of our more able minded to consider if perhaps there isn't a better way to address the evil and suffering than to build our institutions and economics on a sea of blood and tears.

If it is up to us to create, for ourselves, the best of all possible worlds then clearly, the only way to get there is to discover for ourselves the best of all possible paths and determine to follow it.