Douch argues that all great advances involve suffering.
Every siege and blockade in Syria involves suffering for the victims but otherwise every situation is distinct.
Keeping their language going does involve suffering a bit, asking yourself am I doing this correctly, are they learning and making progress?
The old-timers feel that allegiances should be more tribal, and possibly involve suffering under a leader or two who you hate because you feel a greater commitment to the cause.
Since the utilitarian is concerned exclusively with the sum of happiness and suffering and the slaughter of an animal that doesn't comprehend that death need not involve suffering, the Good Farm adds to the total of animal happiness, provided you replace the slaughtered animal with a new one.
Films in the first category examine how a young man (it never seems to be a woman) commits himself to his villain-bashing vocation, a process that invariably involves suffering a personal trauma, developing his weaponry and/or superpowers and acquiring his trademark costume.
Culver and Gert analyze the concept of a malady, which involves suffering evils, or increased risk of evil, due to "a condition not sustained by something distinct" from oneself (1982, 72).
The idea is that since punishment involves suffering, it should be inflicted as minimally as possible, consistent with the vague limits of cardinal desert and any other goals (including deterrence and incapacitation) that should be cited to help provide a full justification for punishment.
For as in the case of sin, the antitheist could then argue that God could as easily have created the world so that the resultant good would be achieved by means that did not involve suffering, or would simply appear without any means at all.
