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9) If every pleasure could be prolonged to endure in both body or mind, pleasures would never differfrom one another.
I find this part of the text to be enlightening because, to me, it makes sense that the body and mind would not be able to differ between pleasures if they were to be prolonged. Now if we decrease the length of effect pleasures have on us and include hardships, our body and mind are able to differentiate pleasures and put them on a scale of being okay to amazing.
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8) No pleasure is a bad thing in itself, but some pleasures are only obtainable at the cost of excessivetroubles.
I find this section of the text confusing because it seems to say that pleasure is always good. To me I disagree that pleasure is always good, I feel that moderations should be implied with pleasures or else they will turn into (for a lack of better terms) bad habits. I only say this because if a person is constantly seeking pleasure, it means that they are always chasing for it. This chase for pleasure, in some cases, may turn into a negative loop especially if they are not succeeding in finding pleasure. This failure to achieve pleasure can create a build-up of anxiety, which is opposite to goal they were trying to achieve. So, this part of the text is confusing for me to fully understand.
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34) Injustice is not an evil in itself, but only in consequence of the accompanying fear of being unableto escape those assigned to punish unjust acts.
This section of the text is very interesting to me because now-a-days Injustice and inequality in themselves are always seen as not right (aka evil). In this section injustice is defined as being somewhat normal. The evil part of injustice comes in when a person that had not done any wrongdoing is now facing punishment that does not align with the actions they have done. This creates a sense of fear within the person's mind. So, it's not the injustice that creates the fear, it's the punishment that does.
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2) Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences nosensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
I find this section of the text disturbing and misinforming due to the recent data that scientist of Michigan have discovered. The study from, Michigan Center for Consciousness Science has revealed that parts of the brain actually are active for a short time after death, unless these parts of the brain are damaged. Therefor we actually do experience sensations during the process of death. So, with this new knowledge, is death really nothing to us? Or is death a person's last experience involving sensation?
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