What Is True Suffering?

It is estimated that every day around the world, almost twenty five thousand people starve to death and that every ten seconds during each day, a different person around the world dies of a disease related issue. When most people think of suffering they think about unpleasant thoughts or experiences that might make them uncomfortable or that may cause a slight disturbance in their everyday life. Everyone has their day to day troubles, but how many people can actually say that they are truly or are even moderately suffering in their everyday life? Very few can, only a very small percentage of people can actually say that they have to endure true suffering in their life. True suffering puts humans in unthinkable circumstances and pushes them
Without being able to experience the lows in life it would be impossible to be able to experience any of the highs or any of the joys of life either. Therefore it would be a moral injustice to actively prevent future suffering for someone else or for oneself. Not only because of the good and bad things that suffering can bring to one’s life, but by someone taking steps to change a situation that will certainly lead to the future suffering of oneself or someone else, they are taking away someone else’s ability to experience and learn by not allowing them to react and adjust to suffering in a way that they naturally would. By doing this one would also risk causing collateral damage, where one could cause an even larger unexpected problem to arise from changing the outcome of even the smallest event due to knowledge of the future. A similar scenario is presented in the movie Arrival, in the main character Louise when she sees the suffering and eventual death of her future child through her premonitions caused by her learning the heptapod language. Even though Louise had this knowledge she still decided to give birth to her child, fully knowing about the suffering that this child will surely endure. By not actively preventing this child’s future suffering Louise allows her child (Hannah) to experience the little bit of life that she did. Whether or not Hannah got to experience life
In Louise’s situation at the end of the movie she could have decided not to have had the child, and not give the child the experience of life so she could just live happily with Ian (her lover). They would be able to stay together and avoid the problem that occurred in the movie. This would have been the easier choice but it would have been the wrong choice; the selfish choice. Similarly, in a situation like the one shown in the future society of the World State in Brave New World, the world leaders believe that, in order for their society to remain perfect everyone has to be happy with the role that the play in it. Therefore there is no room for free will because with free will comes pain and suffering which will eventually lead to social instability. The world leaders in the World State prioritize the government over the citizens that keep it afloat. They believe that their knowledge of the future or what they think will happen to the World State gives them the right to take away the suffering and the free will of the citizens that live within it. It is morally unjust to change your own fate or any other person’s fate for the better and especially for the worse. We have no responsibility to change or to in any way affect our own