[HN Gopher] The politics of pain
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The politics of pain
Author : anarbadalov
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-01-05 20:29 UTC (2 days ago)
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| poszlem wrote:
| I might be misunderstanding what the author is trying to say, but
| to me the whole thing read like many contemporary social science
| articles that make a jump from: "a certain part of an experience
| can be affected by nurture" to "therefor there is no objective
| measurement of anything and everything can be changed through
| relearning".
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| By doing so we are kind of leaving the realm of reality and we go
| into metaphysics.
| nverno wrote:
| The list of additions to the pain definition all seem painfully
| obvious, like warnings not to drink a container of bleach. I
| don't think the author is saying anything of note, but trying
| to reframe things from an HR perspective.
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