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Has anybody else here read this?
No, but it certainly sounds like Card from his books that I have read- I'm thinking of Speaker For The Dead. A different kind of issue, but still very weighty matters. Not my favorite read, but interesting.

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if you could stop suffering, at what point is it wrong to do so?
I think it probably has to do with what your real goals are. If it is your real goal to end suffering, then probably you should use your power to the fullest extent. If your goal is to make people happy, you have to be more careful about it. There are many, many goals people have with regards to their fellow man.

It should come as no surprise that I personally would look toward Christ and what I believe his goals were. If He really could heal the lame and stop suffering (as I believe he could), then why didn't he heal everyone? People debate this of course, but my belief is that every miracle was performed in to demonstrate something of God's truth rather than to simply end suffering. Much more could be said about that (and argued), but I suppose the bottom line for me is that I'd use such a power as long as it revealed God's truth to others.

Of course, clearly other people would have other goals or patterns for how to use such a power. That is just mine.
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.