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Life is tough, unspeakably horrible things happen daily. Never feeling happiness would be on the bad end of even that spectrum. But nevertheless, as someone wh
by roenxi 2y ago
Life is tough, unspeakably horrible things happen daily. Never feeling happiness would be on the bad end of even that spectrum.
But nevertheless, as someone who is acutely aware that unspeakable horrors surround us, an accurate prediction of never feeling happiness again doesn't logically lead to feeling a sense of hopeless, so it doesn't follow that depressed people are more likely to be working from an accurate world model.
The logical thing to do is to either look for ways to feel happiness or ignore it and salvage some meaning from whatever is left besides happiness. Easier said than done I know, particularly for someone who is depressed. But logic is what it is.
- lukan 2y ago"But logic is what it is." Indeed. It is a abstract tool that is helpful, if the abstractions of reality are meaningful in the given context.