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Why We Enjoy Suffering & Understanding Your Freedom of Speech

Something You Should Know

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Is This a Sliding Scale?

"I think only humans have first come across the trick of using suffering as a way to enhance pleasure. Only humans care about meaning and ality and feeling good about ourselves," he says. "Psychologists have no idea at all why some people like some forms of sufferingand others like different forms of suffering."

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