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The Antidote to Suffering
"The fundamental question in life is how to regulate suffering," he says. "Suffering of others in your own suffering can make you nihilistic, suicidal, resentful, genocidal, murderous." The school shooters who are 'nihilistic' go out and kill people and then shoot themselves because they've taken the doctrine to its logical conclusion,. He adds that non-being is one antidote but so is voluntary acceptance of suffering.