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Agree completely Consolidia. Well said.
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You are right that life has its upsides, but I just don't think that a walk in the snow or bar of Dairy Milk is enough compensation for dying from cancer while blood bubbles out of your mouth (which is what happened to my hairdresser's dad last week). Personality plays a major part in all this of course. And much of that is inherited. I'm a melancholic, low-energy, hyper-sensitive, socially anxious introvert. In other words, hopelessly ill-adapted to the world. My kids would almost certainly inherit some of my wretched, dysfunctional personality. And I couldn't do that to them. |
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life certainly has lots of suffering and unfortunately some people can be cruel, but, relatively speaking, it's only a few moments of intense suffering in someone's life of 70 years,. so, on balance, it's statistically very much a good life. unless, that is,. you want to spend most of your time unproductively focusing your thinking on someone else's few moments of suffering? I suppose it's up to you how you spend your time, but it could be argued that there are more positive, productive ways to spend your time and your thinking? |
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