system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a logical reason why suffering is bad, or is it taken as an axiom?

Is there any argument that explains why suffering is bad that isn’t tautological? Is there anything in the realm of reason that could explain why suffering is bad, or do philosophers just automatically assume that it’s bad because humans are programmed to fear suffering?
gpt
It's often taken as self-evidently true, or intuitively true. You could call that "an axiom", but it's important to understand that the "axiom" is often understood to be justified non-inferentially (i.e., via rational intuition, rather than being accepted arbitrarily).