It’s Bush’s fault.
Thanks Obama.
Causing an animal pain when it does something, even the most natural and instinctive something, is the surest way to convince it that it should never ever do that thing again. Even when the person/thing that caused the pain is gone, it can be extremely difficult to convince the animal to reinstate the natural response.
Higher animals will even show signs of fear when they have actively repressed the urge to do the something, they know they almost did it.
If that doesn’t prove that they felt the pain, much as we would have, then you must have a very different definition of it than I do.
In fact, I would argue that it’s worse for them, because they don’t have any way of knowing that the pain will end soon, or even eventually. And they can’t process that the pain will not come back. We, at least can quickly understand the cause, effect and probable duration/recurrence. I’d say those things allow us to work through more pain than an animal could.
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That I’m going to die of old age.
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That dying of old age is relatively painless, and not the weeks of agonising suffering that it actually almost always is.
But there used to be no law and order or “Economic infrastructure” and people still tried to treat each other well. When that failed, people created law and order. LAw and order isn’t something that suddenly descended upon us like a tornado, it’s a human construct designed in large part so we DO treat each other nicely.
The thread is seemingly more about cynicism than it is about myths we tell ourselves.
No, it doesn’t …
That the ground beneath our feet is solid and that the sun is everlasting, and that they won’t wipe out all life on the planet when the time has come.
That humanity will have found a way to colonise the stars before the above happens.
A couple that seem to get me through the day, even though I’m not sure I really believe them, is the idea that everyone eventually gets what’s coming to them, and that everyone has their cross to bear.
I hate to believe that some of these really wealthy guys I’ve seen with gorgeous girlfriends, fast cars, etc… don’t also have a mountain of stupid debt, a history of child-abuse, inabiity to find love, or some kind of horrible personal lives, or some other redeeming quality or issue to offset what seems like obnoxiously extraordinary luck.
Or that some of these executive types who get fired for gross incompetence (that everyone saw coming), who end up landing on their feet as executives somewhere else will eventually get fucked by fate for their lack of competence and the effects that it has on people and their families. There are two guys in particular who used to work at my company who were just fuckheads- they ran IT ragged, they did dumb-ass stuff that lost money, and yet somehow after being unceremoniously shit-canned, they managed to get other jobs with similar companies and similar titles. I like to tell myself that justice will eventually prevail, and that those dickheads will have to eat dog food while living in a dumpster, but I doubt it.
That my boss will some day pay me the 7 months of back wages she owes me. :dubious:
Why in the hell are you still working for someone who hasn’t paid you in 7 months? That’s beyond asinine.
Well, if he leaves now then that 7 months is just flushed away with nothing to show for it. 
So did you ever actually get paid, Apollon?
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Yes! Karma is often used or too often you hear the phrase "what goes around, comes around’.
Also (insert person’s name) will burn in hell. Actually, there are other religious myths to ease one’s mental struggle such as… ‘God needed him/her’… and pleas from individuals to everyone they know, when a loved one is facing serious issues ‘Please pray for (insert person’s name)’.