The phrase "capacity to suffer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about pain, empathy, or the ability to endure hardship.
Example: "The capacity to suffer is a fundamental aspect of the human experience, shaping our understanding of compassion."
Alternatives: "ability to endure pain" or "potential for suffering."
And this includes our capacity to suffer.
Ethical debates about animals have often hinged on questions like whether they possess self-consciousness or the capacity to suffer.
Despite their small size, mice are thinking, feeling creatures with wants and needs and a capacity to suffer.
In Humans, some synths are given a crucial piece of software that gives them the capacity to suffer, which changes everything.
Why isn't the capacity to suffer a sufficient ground for legal rights of some kind -- for dogs, cats, horses, chimpanzees, bonobos or for that matter cognitively impaired human beings?
And somewhere along the line — whether it was in my family, in my friendships, from my religious background, or just from my reading — I developed the capacity to suffer.
In addition, we need to remain aware that poor countries with the least adaptive capacity are expected to suffer most from the adverse effects of climate change, including hurricanes, devastating floods, and melting ice caps.
Whether it is framed as the goal of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number or as a categorical imperative to treat people as ends rather than means, it was the universal capacity of a person to suffer and flourish, they said, that called on our moral concern.
Yet their high marginal tax rates are helping to deter investment in new production capacity.Slow serviceAmong the first to suffer the consequences of all this are oilfield-services firms.
Moreover, just how bad can it literally be out there in the burbs where Frank Wheeler can dopily muse, "Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated" -- and yet where almost nobody's character shows capacity to change, but only to suffer?
Indeed Islam intends to neither create difficulties nor expects its followers to endure harm as revealed in the following Glorious Qur'anic verses: "No soul should be compelled beyond capacity, neither the mother made to suffer for the child nor the father for his offspring…" [Glorious Qur'an, Al-Baqara 2 233] "God does not burden a soul beyond capacity".
