this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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If you didn't have discomfort or pain (or negative emotions in general), positive emotions would feel like nothing. You need the bad to contrast the good.

Kind of like gaining a tolerance to a drug, you can gain a tolerance to an emotion.