Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues

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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That’s why I ask for one I can’t for nearly into that category of “brain does this to ease itself of discomfort”

Right, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s not possible to give you one. You have built for yourself a theory that is not falsifiable; every example you might be given will be reinterpreted through the lens of pain, and so it will reaffirm your ideas—because you have designed it to.

Imagine someone wearing purple-tinted glasses while asking people to show them something that wasn’t purple-colored. It can’t be done.

This is more or less why I was asking about what value this idea has for you, what it teaches you about the world. If this idea, that literally all comedy is about processing pain, means something, it leads to some conclusion, then it becomes falsifiable. Right now you’re just offering it as a kind of truism.

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