Insightful and (ironically) gut-punching post from @Catvalente on the way we — as humans in general — think about pain.
“The idea that pain is punishment is at the core of humanity's nasty little habit of turning its back on itself and we've been doing that for quite some time now. For all of the time, really.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/catvalente/p/pain-is-not-a-penance