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I think some people need proper perspective on life. We are all actors playing out silly games of ambition. Achievement is really no different than a life of non-achievement, although your human instincts tell you otherwise. Also there is no such thing as being perfect unless perhaps you are a strong artificial intelligence that is a million times smarter than humans.



And taking your own life isn't such a big deal if it's all just a game.

Achievements or none; they won't matter to you when you're in the ground.


Well, if none of it matters, might as well stick around. It's not like you have anything better to do.


How brilliant. How is that a better argument than "if you don't like it here, you might as well kill yourself."?

Oh I see. Because you implicitly value "doing" as better than "not doing", no matter what. So in that case, "living" must be better than "not existing", but definition. Hence you should stay around. How brilliant. Got any more brilliant arguments which are by default true by your own axioms?


You sound awfully angry. I'm not sure why. I'm not really saying either is better. Rather, each of us has an eternity of "not existing" waiting for us; there just doesn't seem to be any reason to rush into it. It's not going anywhere.


Perhaps, we can still show compassion for those who will be here after we're gone.




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