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You can be smart and think the world is a beautiful place and life is a gift.


You can, but only if you avoid actually trying to reason about this and taking all available evidence into account.

If you do, best case, the world might be a beautiful place for you specifically. But thinking about it makes you realize just how rare it is and just how lucky you are. And just how fucked it is for most everybody else.

And if you keep thinking, then you realize that any luck can run out and you can join said everybody else in an instant.


You can think that but you’d be wrong.


Perhaps you're depressed?


Far from it. But you only have to watch the news to see the world is a shithole and people are the worst.


The news is not real life. Perhaps go outside and see how friendly and pleasant things are.


> The news is not real life.

Wow. Has anyone informed the people getting killed in conflicts all over the world of this?




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