Pain VS Pleasure

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I would definetely agree.

Someone can make a great sacrifice for someone they love, like Jesus did for us.

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Someone can take the biggest slice of cake (being selfish) and it brings them pleasure. :rolleyes:
 
I think it’s a bit simplistic. For me usually during the right thing and feeling good go together. I would feel very good if I helped my friend to beat an addiction to drugs, and I would feel very bad if I did nothing about it.

On the other hand, I would feel awful if I failed to protect a fellow co-worker by doing something as simple as calling the police.

Things that are bad: lying, cheating, stealing, murder, torture, rape, hurting others in some way etc. feel bad. I can’t imagine feeling good doing those things. I’d feel terrible if I did them, in fact.

Things that are good: helping others, being a friend, contributing to society through hard work, learning, being active politically to better society etc. all feel good.

Maybe God gave us good and bad feelings as a guide to do what’s right.

Addictions etc. are diseases, so obviously people’s feelings about the substance they’re addicted to are all off. But otherwise…
 
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I would definetely agree.

Someone can make a great sacrifice for someone they love, like Jesus did for us.

But

Someone can take the biggest slice of cake (being selfish) and it brings them pleasure. :rolleyes:
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Or making sacrifice in order to make your loved one’s life better would bring you great pleasure, while taking more cake at the expense of others would make you feel guilty and bad.

It all depends, eh?

Somehow, since Jesus chose to do what he did, being God and all, I think his sacrifice brought him great pleasure. Being all powerful he could have saved us in any number of ways, with the blink of an eye if you will, but he chose to do it in that particular way and I think he felt good doing it. Maybe he did it for a greater purpose, to show us how much he loves us or something along those lines. The pleasure felt from accomplishing what he wanted would have overriden the pain of the action itself.

But anyway, being God he could have suppressed all the pain he felt right there. And maybe he did. Who knows!
 
I reckon that, in the short term, doing the wrong thing can bring pleasure (if it didn’t, then we wouldn’t be tempted to do it) but in the long term it always ends up bringing pain.

On the other hand, doing the right thing might be a sacrifice, bringing short term pain, but in the long term always brings pleasure.
 
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