Maybe these bastards won’t let us die and want to keep us around so they can always point to us and feel better about themselves. After all, human happiness is relative and is based on comparisons with our peers.
-If all the super depressed people die, then the slightly depressed will be the most depressed in the population, and they’d feel worse than “just a little bad off.”
-If all the slightly depressed die, then the not-depressed-but-not-happy population will be the worst off, so they’ll feel like sh*t, because after all, everyone else is happy BUT them.
-And so on and so forth.
If that example is hard to understand, think of it as test scores.
-If all the F students are gone, then the C’s and D’s are the worst scorers in the class.
-If all the D’s get kicked out, then only As Bs and Cs are left. So now if you’re the C student, it used to be not that horrible because at least you passed. But now, you can only get an A, B or C. And you scored a C so…
-Now if the C’s are gone, then the only people left are A’s and B’s.
-Now there’s only grades A and B being doled out. If you get a B, you’re score sucks because you’re in the bottom half. It means you’re the dumber half of the group. And who’s gonna be happy getting that B now? When there were lots of people getting Cs Ds and Fs, you felt great because B sounds like a great grade. But now, you can only get an A or B, and you manage to only get a B…
As long as there are enough people below you, you can think you’re doing relatively well. This applies to every aspect of human life- be it happiness, money, looks, test scores, etc. As long as there are enough people poorer than you, uglier than you, dumber than you, less successful than you, you can think you’re doing relatively well, or OK.
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That’s a very interesting way to put it. Somedays, I would welcome a mass extermination of the super depressed, or even just the depressed. I’d lie, and tell them my name is Aaron Abner, so if they were shooting us alphabetically, I’d go sooner than Zach Ziegfeld.
@once I like your humour
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Like my counciler said “I’d my clients were able to be euthanized, I’d be out of a job”
I call therapist “hope peddlers”. It’s a revolving door. We go out and come back in, not feeling any better. Meanwhile they keep making money.
That thought alone is depressing as hell, truly no one cares about people who are depressed. 🙁
People always say, “Oh I’m here if you need me,” or if something happens they say, “You should have told me!” Like what could they really do? I hate shallow help.
I guess I work the opposite way. I wanna feel the absolute worse a human being can. I practically want to completely destroy myself.
I have always thought that the most selfish thing I could possibly do is make someone stay just for me.