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RE: There Can Be No Good
I would include harm such as theft or invasion of privacy, which do not cause physical pain. It is, to me, the unbalancing of the rest state. I was fine until you came into the room and did thus and such. Poof! Harm was done! As soon as you leave and let me get back to typing this very important post on steemit, harm will be reduced. I will return to my rest state, and it will be good.
I'll cease this harmful posting after a couple more thoughts ;) I think theft and privacy violations are harmful because of the psychological pain and agree they cause a disturbance from the rest state.
However, don't pleasurable and neutral things also disturb the rest state? Perhaps we could lable them as harmful, but that doesn’t mesh with an intuitive definitive of harm.
This is a big topic, I may have to follow up with a post in the near future.
Pleasure is a different thing. Since it can be both bad (too much cake) and good, it is not intrinsically good in and of itself. If good exists, we will have to find it elsewhere.