A pill erases all your painful memories — but also the lessons you learned from them. You become happier but more naive.
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Both options ask you to define what counts as 'you'. One answer says: the version of you that suffers less is the better version, regardless of how you got there. The other says: the version of you that learned from pain is the one continuous with your past — and that continuity is part of identity, not a cost.
Why people split
People who value subjective wellbeing as the highest good see no obvious reason to keep pain that has done its work. People who value narrative identity see erasing the lessons as erasing a quiet kind of self — even if the residue is happier, it's less yours.
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What the split says
With 100% choosing “Refuse. Pain made you who you are” (1 total votes), this result leans toward a more pragmatic outcome among SplitVote voters. That does not make that option correct; it shows which cost they are currently more willing to accept.
Worth asking yourself
- Is the principle worth the concrete cost?
- What cost are you more willing to accept?