"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 04:03 PM Thursday 8/19/04, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> >I realize that I don't have an explanation for why pain and suffering is
> >required for the existence of free will.
>
> Mainly because if genuine free will is possible, it is possible for us to
> exercise our free will to make wrong choices as well as right choices, and
> the natural consequences of those wrong choices (ours or those of others
> around us whose choices affect us) involve pain and suffering.
But you could have pain & suffering without free will, I think.
I mean, what does free will have to do with the pain & suffering
experienced in giving birth? (Just the base pain, I'm not counting the
technologically-enabled pain such as the episiotomy without benefit of
anesthesia....)
Julia
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