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says this can be true of pain and suffering. Klein’s final argument considers phenomenology. He explains it clearly in his last paragraph of the argument:

“…separating pain and hurt takes an apparently heterogenous phenomenological set and
distinguishes two phenomenologically homogenous partitions. There’s pain, which is a
distinctive sensation with a distinctive motivational role, and there’s hurt, which qualifies
an extraordinarily heterogenous set of mental states but promotes the same activity
toward each of the token mental states that it qualifies” (Klein, 55).

That presents the last of Klein’s arguments, and the last support of his novel idea that pain and suffering are not synonymous. He concludes that it is factual that pains do sometimes cause suffering, yet suffering is not a necessary feature of pains.

I think Klein offers a compelling argument in an arena that seems straightforward. Furthermore, I believe his argument that pain is not the same as suffering is successful. However, this presents a relationship between pain and well-being that needs to be explored. The idea that pain and suffering are not the same, and that pain can exist without suffering presents the idea that pain does not have to have a negative impact on well-being. Suffering has a negative impact on well-being, but since pain isn’t the same as suffering, I think it is only fair that pain doesn’t have to have a negative impact on well-being. Of course, this is completely subjective to the person experiencing the pain and the situation. An argument for this is the fact that people voluntarily choose to do things that hurt, yet bring them joy. Childbirth is a perfect example- the woman endures 9 months of being uncomfortable and then the pain of delive