one kind of person who fully understands that minimizing suffering is not something that should properly be made into a goal is people who have lost a deeply loved partner
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for those joining late, minimizing suffering should be viewed as a means, not an end. survival is the same. making them into ends means congrats, you have picked goals you can only fail at and that will screw over your ability to accomplish things you could’ve succeeded at
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people who’ve lost someone they deeply loved have a part of themselves that grew together with that person, like trees with spliced-together branches. field-programmed neurology that literally exists to connect to and be completed by that person
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and because human neural adaptation mostly works by dropping what isn’t used, this is a part of them that was literally, physically carved like wood to serve this purpose. so yeah, when they’re gone, that part of them just hurts all the time
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Replying to @chaosprime
psychological parallel of phantom limb but with the now-missing recipient of your love crying rn
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