One immediate but ultimately flawed response is to delay further policies that will increase energy prices and cause further suffering.
However, this self-schema will inevitably become activated, perhaps in some contexts more than others, and it will trigger a chain reaction of thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and actions that are likely to cause further suffering.
Renewed attacks using chemical weapons by the Syrian regime would cause further suffering and loss of civilian lives, and would lead to displacement of the civilian population on a large scale and in hostile conditions.
Breaking three days of silence, Mr. Bloomberg told reporters that he had immediately decided that Mr. Goldsmith would have to resign over the arrest, but did not want to cause further suffering to the Goldsmith family by making the July 30 arrest public.
But it's also important to understand that if anxiety colours our perception of the world around us, these sorts of stereotypes may reinforce negative distortions and cause further suffering, regardless of whether or not it was meant as a joke.
Does the withdrawal of fluids cause further suffering?
"Any attempt to use this location to cause further distress and suffering to those who have lost loved ones would be abhorrent and offensive".
"[It's] causing further displacement".
"To the section of the French population that is already marginalized, embattled, and victimized," they wrote, "Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet must be seen as being intended to cause further humiliation and suffering".
In contrast to the Catholic church Voltaire fought – an authoritarian near-monopoly – Eisenberg, like Carey, sees Islam in today's France as a religion providing succour to the "embattled, marginalised, impoverished and victimised", a population for whom the cartoons "must be seen as intended to cause further humiliation and suffering".
