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I think the pain of loss was just as severe, and the past was just more miserable than we think. Someday our children and descendants will look back at our tim

I think the pain of loss was just as severe, and the past was just more miserable than we think. Someday our children and descendants will look back at our time period in horror at the atrocities we continue to allow happen globally. 300,000 children under 5 die every year of malaria. The extensiveness of the agony that causes is difficult to comprehend.

dwaltrip 9y ago
> I think the pain of loss was just as severe, and the past was just more miserable than we think. Why would the pain be equivalent, despite the vastly different context: life experiences and expectations, cultural details, worldviews, etc? To be clear, there are many aspects/phases to the pain of loss. I can imagine that the initial suffering may be very similar, but that the integration/processing of the event in subsequent months and years be significantly different. That's not to say that, overall, it wasn't worse back then, but I'm guessing the pain from a single loss event might be noticeably different due to the vastly different context.