catch-all: taichi.

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So, you say the pain is worth it because of whatever potential happiness you might feel. Is that right?

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Yes. If you can't feel anything then...how do you have the motivation to do anything at all?

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Your first fallacy was linking motivation to emotions.

It's exactly the opposite. What about all those people whose very existence is nothing but hell? The pain in their hearts weight them down, and keep them from living their lives. Not everyone gets to experience the "good," you know.

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But if you think about it in reverse, isn't motivation an experience of the heart in the first place? If you can't feel anything, then how can you even know what the good actually is? It sounds more miserable to never know the difference because good and bad are the same.

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Again, wrongly believing motivation and morality are matters of the heart. But I guess you wouldn't understand, anyway.

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I'm pretty sure I'm not the one who doesn't understand, Ichinose-san. But maybe we can agree to disagree?