I completely agree with you, but it also makes me wonder about the following: do we only get used and take for granted what is pleasurable, or can we do the very same thing with pain and ugliness? I do not think so, at least for myself, and I think I develop a defense mechanism that keeps reminding me what was the cause of that pain so that I will stay away from it next time, if at all possible, while I will seek again the cause of pleasure any time I can. On that level, pleasure and pain are two very different animals, and I definitely prefer pleasure - and I will leave the "pleasure" of pain and ugliness for masochists.
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I completely agree with you, but it also makes me wonder about the following: do we only get used and take for granted what is pleasurable, or can we do the very same thing with pain and ugliness? I do not think so, at least for myself, and I think I develop a defense mechanism that keeps reminding me what was the cause of that pain so that I will stay away from it next time, if at all possible, while I will seek again the cause of pleasure any time I can. On that level, pleasure and pain are two very different animals, and I definitely prefer pleasure - and I will leave the "pleasure" of pain and ugliness for masochists.