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The document discusses the misconceptions surrounding pleasure and pain, emphasizing that people do not inherently reject pleasure or seek pain, but rather their pursuit is influenced by rationality and consequences. It argues that while pleasure is desirable, the inability to pursue it wisely can lead to painful outcomes. The text critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering their long-term effects.

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The document discusses the misconceptions surrounding pleasure and pain, emphasizing that people do not inherently reject pleasure or seek pain, but rather their pursuit is influenced by rationality and consequences. It argues that while pleasure is desirable, the inability to pursue it wisely can lead to painful outcomes. The text critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering their long-term effects.

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This is 3/5 of my “documents” But I must explain to you


how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born
and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual
teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human
happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is
there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because
it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and
pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of
us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some
advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who
chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who
avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we
denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled
and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by
desire, that they cannot foresee

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