Will, Doubt, Pain

It seems easier to doubt the existence of a distant, contained fire than of that consuming the stake to which one is tethered. To someone in the latter plight, the most immediate likely options are to either recant one's heresy or to resist the compulsion. In contrast, the exercise of Cartesian Doubting, is, in the context, at best a feeble third possibility. But, if so, then it is revealed as a volitional alternative to either eliminating or enduring the cause of suffering. So, if Descartes had applied his method to the extreme agony, he might have arrived at the indubitability of 'I will'.