Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy.
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