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Question
Dr. Barnard couldn’t find any nobility in suffering. Why?
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Solution
As a doctor, he does not find any nobility in suffering. There is nothing noble in a patient’s thrashing around in a sweat-soaked bed, mind clouded in agony. He was against his dad’s faith that suffering ennobles human beings.
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