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Expl 4 Antion 2

The document discusses the balance between seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, highlighting that while enjoying pleasure is natural, one must also consider the potential consequences of their choices. It criticizes those who are overly indulgent in immediate pleasures without foresight and those who neglect their responsibilities due to weakness of will. The author aims to clarify the misconceptions surrounding the condemnation of pleasure and the glorification of pain.

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Expl 4 Antion 2

The document discusses the balance between seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, highlighting that while enjoying pleasure is natural, one must also consider the potential consequences of their choices. It criticizes those who are overly indulgent in immediate pleasures without foresight and those who neglect their responsibilities due to weakness of will. The author aims to clarify the misconceptions surrounding the condemnation of pleasure and the glorification of pain.

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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 the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to
those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying
through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to
distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when
nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be
welcomed and e

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 th1

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