Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
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