Pain or Pleasure

This I suppose is broadly about the ‘carnal-minded’ sense of life, a life without the spirit, and what is the ultimate hierarchy of values in practical terms regarding this sensual based life.Which is greater: pleasure or pain? Well if  pain pushed to its limit ends in death. Pleasure at the physical level pushed to or beyond its limits passes eventually over to pain - for example, for a child being remorselessly tickled by a powerful adult, this becomes genuinely torturous. This the inevitable process of any physical pleasure pushed to an infinity.

So summing up, pleasure pushed ever onwards becomes pain, while pain pushed ever onwards ends in death. So a carnal-minded culture focused on the body and its gratification could reasonably be described as a death cult.