We still don't know whether it's possible to justify treating all forms of suffering as ethically equivalent regardless of their cause.
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Physical pain, emotional distress, and existential anguish may all count as suffering, but it's unclear whether they deserve identical moral weight or should be treated as fundamentally different categories. This unresolved question complicates how we compare and prioritize different kinds of harm.