[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Jun 27 13:28:22 PDT 2003


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:


> All other things being anywhere close to equal, just about everyone (in
> every sociohistorial context) prefers a life free from physical
> discomforts like, say, starvation.
>
> -- Luke

I'll admit, I was fishing for this (naive?) response. Religious fasts? Rites of passage? Your idea that physical discomfort is bad is an idea you've learned in a particular society.

Miles



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