Spiritual pain is the worst pain for lives without value

There are many things in our lives that are beyond our control. We can't choose our parents, our appearance and many can't even change their jobs. But we can choose how to live our lives.

The 10th fall by an employee of tech firm Foxconn last Friday shocked China. I've been reluctant to write about the spate of deaths of Foxconn employees, but I've been following related reports to learn about what those workers' lives were like.

But a recent unfortunate event made me pick up my pen.