To wit: I have suffered thusly; I adhere to my current set of mores; my mores are superior because they have superseded mores that were lost to suffering; the application of the suffering I endured will create better behavior when applied to others. This is not a flawed argument in and of itself until you step back and consider a society full of people who think suffering is good and they should inflict it on another, which is most of the societies we have now. Perhaps it was inevitably passed down from times when suffering was inevitable, and death a daily foe instead of the desperately
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