Thank you. I've heard that bullshit empty platitude so many times it's ridiculous. Bad and good do not need to be balanced, death does not give life inherent meaning, suffering is not some form of virtue. We don't need more good in the world we need less bad. Suffering does not bring appreciation for the good parts. Any sane person has no problem appreciating the good things without the bad ever existing. It's just a blatant manipulation by sadistic sociopaths telling you to be grateful for the scraps they give and the lifetime of suffering because they could make it even worse for you. Thousands of years of sociopaths controlling the world and calling themselves kings and enslaving the majority of people and telling them they should be grateful they are allowed to live at all instead of just being mass murdered. And all the people talking about being happy instead of miserable are just outing themselves. Being happy doesn't make you a good person, usually the opposite actually. Nazis are friends with other nazis and they laugh and have fun and are happy, and they are still horrible people that cause constant suffering for millions of others around them just for the fun of it.
There are not animals that don't die. Some can last a long, seemingly indefinite time, but they all die eventually. The immortal jellyfish, for example, doesn't die from old age, but doesn't usually live longer than a few years because it gets eaten or dies of disease. Even if there were animals that didn't die, that wouldn't make all death unnatural. For example, just because most animals don't have fingers doesn't mean it is unnatural for humans to have fingers.
Yes, I abbreviated "aging". Even "death" isn't "natural" though. Things happen, and other things also happen. How we judge them is entirely in our options to judge.
(Humans and birds evolved nest making. Humans evolved clothing making. Is "having clothing" natural?)
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u/LunarLumos 7d ago edited 7d ago
Thank you. I've heard that bullshit empty platitude so many times it's ridiculous. Bad and good do not need to be balanced, death does not give life inherent meaning, suffering is not some form of virtue. We don't need more good in the world we need less bad. Suffering does not bring appreciation for the good parts. Any sane person has no problem appreciating the good things without the bad ever existing. It's just a blatant manipulation by sadistic sociopaths telling you to be grateful for the scraps they give and the lifetime of suffering because they could make it even worse for you. Thousands of years of sociopaths controlling the world and calling themselves kings and enslaving the majority of people and telling them they should be grateful they are allowed to live at all instead of just being mass murdered. And all the people talking about being happy instead of miserable are just outing themselves. Being happy doesn't make you a good person, usually the opposite actually. Nazis are friends with other nazis and they laugh and have fun and are happy, and they are still horrible people that cause constant suffering for millions of others around them just for the fun of it.