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Avoiding pain
Description:
Keeping away from situations that result in physical or psychological suffering.
Counter Claim:
1. The only condition that totally avoids pain is death.
2. Suffering is an opportunity for spiritual growth.
Broader:
Avoiding
Narrower:
Anaesthetizing
Erecting shields against life's pain
Decreasing sensitivity to personal pain
Constrained by:
Administering pain
Facilitated by:
Managing acute pain
Increasing sensitivity to personal pain
Problems:
Escaping reality through sophisticated shields against life's pain
Pain
Values:
Pain
Avoidance
Subjects:
Medicine
→
Nervous system
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: