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At what point does something get the right to be called a person? What do they need to do to deserve that?

Has anyone ever thought about it?

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a bit less so in many daemonic cultures.
definitely not to this extent.
were it not for adaptability and desire, humans would have been wiped out long ago for this soft mentality...

That's certainly true. In the Outlands, some simply ritualize the pain or 'outsource' it to other species. Their societies may work not because they select against the desire for pain but because they place the burden of it on those different from them.

In its morbid way, it's smart.

does accepting one's way of life have to be seen as morbid? as you said, there are clear merits to it on an evolutionary level, and it means desires, for pain or otherwise, aren't looked down on as weaknesses or something perverse. greed is a natural part of being alive, and pursuit of it can lead to satisfaction. is that not better than repressing it and causing it to grow out of control?

It is morbid when you're speaking from the pain-receiving end.

But that's the paradox any society can only dream of solving. For one person to live freely, they must harm another. Letting everyone live safely means suppression, inevitably. And then it is as you said - though I think it is a lot more common for it to suffocate its bearer rather than to make them rampage.