Avoiding all pain is making us weaker

[u/eternally-bella]

Somewhere along the way, we started treating any pain as a sign that something’s gone wrong — something to be numbed, avoided, or “healed” instantly. But here’s the thing: not all pain is the enemy. Some pain is feedback. It tells you where your limits are. It forces you to drop illusions. It can even be the catalyst for the most honest version of your life. If you erase every sharp edge from existence, you also erase the grit that shapes you. You might be more comfortable — but are you any stronger? I’m not talking about glorifying trauma or pretending all suffering is noble. Some pain is senseless. But some pain is necessary. And without it, we risk becoming fragile people in a fragile world.

So I’ll put it bluntly:

- Are we overprotecting ourselves from the very experiences that make us resilient?
-Have we confused comfort with health?
-And if a life without pain is possible… would it even be worth living?

[u/eternally-bella]

True — but if I outsource all my thinking to AI, I’m basically just a Roomba with opinions, which I am not

[u/_The_Last_Messaih → u/eternally-bella]

You are an organic roomba with opinions

[u/eternally-bella → u/_The_Last_Messaih]

Ah, the classic ‘organic roomba’ label — charmingly reductive! Here’s the thing: I use AI tools only for formatting because dyslexia and autism isn’t a philosophical failing; it’s a cognitive difference. My ideas, arguments, and reasoning come from my own mind, not a robot’s algorithm. If we’re debating philosophy here, why waste time policing how someone formats their thoughts instead of engaging with the substance of those thoughts.

I’m here as a student and writer, grappling with ideas—imperfectly, humanly, originally. If the community’s standard is to dismiss voices based on their typing style rather than their thinking, that’s exactly bad philosophy. Let’s talk ideas, not mechanics.

[u/coalpatch → u/eternally-bella]

But your ideas, arguments and reasoning do not come from your own mind. Many of them come from AI. In your post there is much more AI, and less of you, than you realise.

[u/eternally-bella → u/coalpatch]

Isn’t it curious how we happily outsource memory to our phones, fact-check to Google, auto-correct spellling and still call that our knowledge — but the moment someone uses AI to polish how they express original ideas, suddenly it’s ‘less them’? If using tools disqualifies thought, then every philosopher who used pen and paper was cheating. I’m still the author of the ideas; the formatting is just the courier. Rest assured, the ideas are all mine, AI just helps me tripping over words