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| Illness has to do with the "human perception, experience, and interpretation of certain socially disvalued states" and "is both a personal and social reality and therefore in large part a cultural construct. In answer to those of a Platonic bent who think that our natural knowledge is better after death than before, and who therefore disvalue the human body, we can point out that original sin has wounded our nature but it has not disvalued our bodies. It builds up an anticipation of what the likely outcome of one action or another would be, and then chooses on the basis of how much that outcome is valued or disvalued. |
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