Argumentative Essay On Suffering And Pain

Humans can feel abundant amounts of emotions and sensations throughout a lifetime. Many emotions are considered to be real and occur because they are distinct and prevalent. There are positive emotions, like happiness and glee, but there are negative emotions, like pain and suffering. Pain and suffering are feelings that occur by multiple times in a person’s life, but many people feel that pain and suffering are not real; they think we only feel pain and suffering because there is an absence of something else. I believe that, because pain and suffering are distinct sensations, they have to be real and not just the absence of other emotions like happiness. Through multiple real world situations that can occur in a person’s lifetime, I will …show more content…
Pain and suffering are strong, negative emotions that a person can feel at a time. Like happiness, pain and suffering can occur at any time. Pain and suffering are distinct feelings. A person can feel pain and suffering just like they can feel happiness or laughter. Pain and suffering are both emotions that are normal for human beings and should be felt during a person’s lifetime. How can a person argue that pain and suffering are not distinct sensation? Is it possible that a person can not feel pain, or suffer? If a person were to think about his or her past, is it possible that any person in the world deny that pain and suffering is not distinct? Many people can state that pain or suffering is strong and prevalent, and people can remember how bad that pain had been. Whether it is a physical pain such as getting stabbed or whether it was an emotional pain like a death of a loved one, the pain is very much distinct. Suffering is especially evident after a death of a loved one. Some people who have dealt with a loss of a family member or friend suffer through the days after their loved one had …show more content…
My conclusion states that because pain and suffering are distinct sensations, pain and suffering has to be real and not just absence of something else. To explain that, let me go back to the explanation of getting a gift, although some people would be almost ecstatic to get a new gift, there are other possible confounding variables that could affect a person’s mood during that time. What if that gift reminded the receiver of a bad moment in his or her life, like an ex boyfriend/girlfriend, and he or she had fallen in despair and suffering? Had this person gone into a painful state because of he or she is missing his or her specific other? What if that gift had reminded the receiver of how bad and traumatic that relationship had been? The variable of the gift reminding the receiver of such a strong traumatic experience is proof that pain and suffering are real. Because the feelings of pain and anger are so real, during tragic experiences, pain and suffering are the strongest and most distinct sensations a person feels at the