a view suffering, pain others, rooted religious thinking, links pain s — Susan Sontag, Regarding Pain Others

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It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation – a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless.

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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