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Suffering comes from the gap between your desire and the situation. To fix this, sometimes we place the burden on your desire (Anxiety flying on airplanes? Go to therapy), and sometimes we place the burden on the situation (Get assaulted? Prosecute the assaulter). (cont.)

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Most Effective Altruism mentalities I've seen focus entirely on the latter - changing the situation to be better for people. I have a desire to bring the former back into discussion - how can we help people become more satisfied with their current situations?

8:02 PM · May 25, 2018

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A thing that helps a lot is to articulate one's desires as precisely as possible, and troubleshoot that by repeatedly asking why, to what extent, to what end, why, etc. This helps surface a lot of assumptions that might be unhelpful, subconscious, inherited, etc

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

May 25, 2018

I agree; I'm generally interested in the path of least resistance, not about sticking to ideas about morality, nature, or "strength of character".

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My view is that suffering occurs in the gap between desire and belief. To wit, pangrammaticon.blogspot.dk/2018/05/think-

Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD

@Space_Boy_Ben

May 25, 2018

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@Aella_Girl

Our society still itself through needless perpetuation of various anxieties of being able to afford basic needs (food, shelter, medical, etc.) and this is becoming more and more difficult to sustain even for able bodied and minded consistently employed productive people.