How do we experience the pain of other people?

Re:How do we experience the pain of other people? by varispeed on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:11PM (#34481720)

Some feelings can be controlled by appropriate action. For instance if you experience fear because you don't know how something may end. You may start doing research on it and explore different outcomes. Often turns out that these outcomes aren't actually bad and such information makes fear disappear in an instant.

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Re:How do we experience the pain of other people? by isthisthingon99 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:30PM (#34481876)

In my world, controlling your feeling means being able to turn it off or change it by sheer will. But yes most feelings can and should be managed through positive actions which you can control.

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Re:How do we experience the pain of other people? by ghoogl on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:00PM (#34482172)

controlling feeling is black and white all we need absence of blood flow so we can tense our muscles we can go to near hypothermic conditions and stil we are subject to the brain stem survival needs and whos to say that doesnt have feeling

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Re:How do we experience the pain of other people? by mahathu on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:20PM (#34482361)

You should totally become a therapist dude, I didn't know it was that easy! Thanks!

Next up: homeless people should just start doing research on the property market and buy a house.

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Re:How do we experience the pain of other people? by varispeed on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:35AM (#34487306)

Didn't say it is easy. Not sure why such a negativity. Are you okay?

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