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    Duration transforms the phenomenological character of suffering: what is bearable finitely becomes unbearable infinitely, per Kant's moral arithmetic.

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    • 1.Psychological adaptation diminishes over infinite duration; suffering cannot be psychologically normalized without temporal boundaries.
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    • 2.Moral significance scales with duration; infinite suffering represents infinite injustice, qualitatively distinct from finite harm.
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    • 3.Hope requires conceivable endpoints; infinite suffering eliminates rational grounds for endurance, fundamentally altering its phenomenology.
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    • 1.Bearability depends on intensity and meaning, not duration alone; chronic pain at low intensity may remain bearable indefinitely.
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    • 2.Subjective experience occurs in present moments; infinite duration is not phenomenologically present to consciousness at any given time.
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    • 3.Kant's moral arithmetic applies to consequences and duties, not to qualitative shifts in suffering's character from time passage alone.
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