“We flee from affliction the way an animal flees from death. There's a sense in which it's perfectly natural that our response to difficulty in life is aversive. We're only going to be able to live well with the difficulties of life if we face up to them, because they're difficult.”
— Kieran Setiya
Harvard philosophy professor specializing in ethics and meaning

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