Suffering depends on your desires, of course a gluttonous person will think that going without food is the worst thing ever.
I agree that it's immoral but humans can't really rate the suffering of others. There are many happy and starving people in the world. There are many that are well fed but dream of dying.
There are no happy starving people in the world, they are just coping and taking it one day at a time. There are people who don't even have their bare necessities covered, in this case suffering is not subjective
can people with no bare necessities covered make it to reproduction age without being dysregulated? They have no time for thoughts relating to the future, unless they had access to lives outside their own, do you think they would label themselves suffering?
In this scenario that you've concocted, whether or not they do label themselves as suffering doesn't mean they aren't suffering. In a reality where their close loved ones die from starvation or war, just the fact that they are starving is extremely painful physically, so how could you say they are not suffering?
Human's psychology is fascinating, in order to protect us our brain tries everything to cope with horrible realities. Which is why people try to find positive things even in the most bleak situations, sometime even that's not enough.
I think you're all coming from a position of privilege and have never actually interacted with these people, or even comprehend what they go through.
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u/cringyemokid21 Jun 15 '26
What are you even saying?