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The Devil's Philosophy
In the depths of despair, sometimes an idea is going to come to you. It's like a good god who put this mess together and is it really worth it? Is it really worth the suffering? Suicidal people say no, they say, no, enough of this, you know. But your answer under those conditions is that being is such that it would be better if it had never been. And i can't see that if it's reasonable to draw a logical conclusion that suffering should justifies your desire to make being end, that the answer to that can't be to produce more suffering. That just doesn't make sense. There are ways of being in the world that make the world