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rkachowskilast Sunday at 4:04 AM1 replyview on HN

The idea that suffering will somehow make you noble is quite awful. Depression isn't some kind of cleansing fire that opens you to empathy. It affects good people and assholes and people in every phase of life.


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soulofmischieflast Sunday at 5:32 AM

It doesn't have to make you noble, but there's a certain level of suffering experienced where you stop making comments such as that toward someone who's committed suicide.