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It is a sadistic pleasure. The suffering never stops – that’s the problem.
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The speaker describes a pleasure connected to causing or witnessing suffering, but says that the suffering never ends. That endlessness turns the pleasure into a problem: what is presented as pleasurable is also marked by ongoing pain and no stopping point.
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