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After the Irish Potato Famine that George Boole lived through, he worked on a paper named "Origin of Evil".

His conclusion was: Absolute evil does not exist and pain is an instrument of good.

I can't find it online, my source is the documentary "The Genius of George Boole" [1].

Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death [2] could be a related reading too. I remember that I enjoyed it in a fun way.

Also a dumb theory of mine is: suffering is the proof that you are still alive.

[1] https://youtu.be/Hljir_TyTEw?t=1855

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sickness_unto_Death



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