How and Why
Pain
When we are in pain of a psychological, moral type it is because
seemingly something unfair has happened to us. A value has been taken, lost,
degraded, disdained, destroyed etc. unfairly it seems.
Pain is about the unfair or in other words the unjust. Even
physical pain, when we are in pain, for example, our back hurts, our legs hurt
and we see others happy, dancing and doing even more of the dangerous,
strenuous and unhealthy things that we did to get the pain that we have, we
feel it unfair, unfair, unfair!
Pleasure
It is unjust because in the pursuit of it we give up way too
much!
When a person falls sexually they give up perhaps years of
transmuting for some seconds of perceived pleasure. Even if it was pleasure for
an hour it still does not equal or even compare to the years of and hours of
transmutation.
For the pleasure of having a fancy car or a fancy possession
of some kind, we give up years of hard daily work at the office, all for the
pleasure of knowing that you drive a fancy car that you can’t even see when you’re
driving it. Years of physical work for the pleasure of 'knowing' that only lasts for a few
months until the car gets scratched etc.
That is Why they are Linked
That is Why they are Linked
Justice links these two qualities. Because pleasure breaks balance, pain results. That is precisely why pain seems unfair (but objectively speaking it is fair).
Conclusion
Pain and pleasure are really opposites they coincide in many
points, with one being at one extreme and the other being at the opposite extreme of the same point, and one of these common points is
justice or balance.
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