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“On my account, this is simply a fact about consciousness: the experience of suffering is inherently bad, and this badness carries normative force - it carries a property of this ought not occur that is all too clear, undeniable even, in the moment one experiences it. We do not derive this property. We experience it directly.”

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Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
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