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If you are willing to do only what is easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy
The mentality of victim hood and self pity are the worst things that can happen a person. Whether you’ve got a mentall illness, or an offended social justice warrior, islamphobe or racist labeller, or you’re a chansurfing gynophobe or redpiller, it’s better to look at yourself than see hatred in the world.
I think that having your eyes gouged out with a hot poker is a worse thing than that that can happen to a person.
I think being personally responsible for a googleplex^googleplex dust specks arriving in a googleplex^googleplex eyes is a worse thing than that that can happen to a person.
Yes, of course. So at least two things are worse than it.
I think literalistic interpretations of written text are among the worse things that have happened to humanity. Your comment and the Islamic State to name a few ;)
The actual point is that "the mentality of victim hood and self pity are the worst things that can happen" is really overstated.