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First-world people contriving reasons for being depressed while third-world people have worse lives

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2012-01-08 21:39:02 in General
It's always, "Boredom is the affirmation of nothingness" or "the less you suffer, the clearer you see that value is a disease*" or some other pseudophilosophical garbage, never "I have depression and they don't".

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  • DonZabuDonZabu
    You're still watching this guy?
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    THIS BITCH IS BLUE LIKE CANDY, NIGGA
  • BeholderessBeholderess
    To be honest, it does sound as if troubles and anxiousness of someone  relatively well-off are not legitimate troubles somehow.

    Which it might be, I don't know.

    But still, just because someone has it worse does not mean that one's own situation is automatically good.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    >Ableism thread
    >Thread ragging on depressed people

    What marvelous timing.
  • BobBob
    You're still watching this guy?

    Don, this is Myrmidon you're talking to. When he finds someone he disagrees with about anything, all logic goes out the window. You should know this by now.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Third-world people have worse lives. That doesn't mean that people in the First world don't face challenges of their own.

    Hell, there are plenty of third world countries that have higher reported happiness than first world nations. Happiness isn't based on GDP.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    That's more a reflection of priorities than anything.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I'm not saying that depression isn't hell, I'm just saying that this bizarre resistance to placing the blame on depression instead of weird theories about the nature of suffering is dumb.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    I believe that some narcissism is mixed in to make people believe it's everyone else's fault.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ^^^^ HECK YEAH BANGLADESH
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    When you live in a first-world country, NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I think INUH pointed once that living in the first world is no guarantee of a good life. Hell, according to most statistics, I should have been raped by guerilla soldiers twice, kidnapped for 10 years and died by gunshot, disease and drowning.

    And yet, here I am. 

    I'm not saying that living in the third world isn't hard, just saying that it doesn't guarantee being in a living hell.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    kidnapped for 10 years and died by gunshot, disease and drowning

    Juan confirmed for mightiest badass.
  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales
    "When you live in a first-world country, NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!"

    Oh right.

    I missed that memo then.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I'm not complaining about "I live in the first world, and I have cancer, my life sucks". I'm complaining about "There are people who have far worse lives than my easy comfortable one, and yet I still feel miserable THERE MUST BE SOME DEEP EXISTENTIAL REASON THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CHEMICAL IMBALANCES"
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    People who feel depressed and fear depression try to find a different cause to their problem.

    who da thunk it
  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales
    Not me as I would have said that everyone gets depressed when they realise they cant sleep with their mother

    /lolpsychjoke.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I'm sure that any psychiatrists (secular priests) and TheRapists who would seek to dismiss my position as being the consequence of schizophrenia would orgasm if they read this:

    ~Life is the imposition of value.
    ~Cultural values are the masochistic imposition of suffering through the deprivation of their fulfillment.
    ~Feral values are the innate imposition of suffering through the deprivation of their fulfillment.
    ~Suffering tends to serve as a life-affirming experience.
    ~The less you suffer, the clearer you see that value is a disease.
    ~Death eradicates value and thus is the solution to life.
  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales
    Oooooh

    Can I dismiss his position because he is a nihilist sociopath instead?
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    >Juan confirmed for mightiest badass.

    Again? :>
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    Juan probably has an eyepatch.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    ^^ ALWAYS.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    "
    Can I dismiss his position because he is a nihilist sociopath instead?"

    Sociopath?
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass
    Personally, I would prefer to dismiss his position because he sounds like a muttering robot. Speak up, man!
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    Okay, muttering robot I get, but sociopath?

  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    Okay fine, ASPD then :P


    But he does come across as one over his videos.

  • TravisBickleTravisBickle
    People in third-world countries tend to have shit lives because of outside influences, which they can look forward to an end to. "All I have to do is survive until the war ends/the regime falls/etc". People in first world countries deal with more internal problems - Nobody is gonna think "All I have to do is hold on until I magically don't have depression/etc". Plus the fact that people say "Well you should be thankful for what you have" is a shitty cop-out answer, because someone ALWAYS has it worse. It's a mostly meaningless statement with no real "goal" of an outcome. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2314#comic
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    "People in third-world countries tend to have shit lives because of outside influences, which they can look forward to an end to. "All I have to do is survive until the war ends/the regime falls/etc.""


     ...what? 

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    edited 2012-01-11 10:21:37

    nvm

  • TravisBickleTravisBickle
    Obviously a huge generalization, but my point was that third-world country issues are generally caused by an external source, while first-world problems tend to be on a more internal scale. Sort of like some kind of suffering-based version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
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