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    Chryslyandra Posts: 13, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 8, 2017, 01:33 PM
    Given that the willingness to suffer misery for the sake of others is a virtue...
    Why not just go to Hell for all eternity for the sake of your loved ones? Because after all, their happiness and well-being are more important than your own. Millions of lives are more important than a few and given that there are those who would go through pain and suffering for others (a child living with Depression for his parents' sake so they don't go through the same), why not just off a multitude of people so that the rest of the world can be happy? After all, they don't matter because a crippled or afflicted person's purpose for living is analogous to that of a sacrificial pig; why does ITS happiness matter when EVERYBODY ELSE'S happiness is more important?

    Other people's lives are more important than me and I'm an insignificant nothing compared to everybody else. I wish I could take my own life without consequences...
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    Oct 8, 2017, 03:56 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Chryslyandra View Post
    Why not just go to Hell for all eternity for the sake of your loved ones? Because after all, their happiness and well-being are more important than your own. Millions of lives are more important than a few and given that there are those who would go through pain and suffering for others (a child living with Depression for his parents' sake so they don't go through the same), why not just off a multitude of people so that the rest of the world can be happy? After all, they don't matter because a crippled or afflicted person's purpose for living is analogous to that of a sacrificial pig; why does ITS happiness matter when EVERYBODY ELSE'S happiness is more important?





    Other people's lives are more important than me and I'm an insignificant nothing compared to everybody else. I wish I could take my own life without consequences...
    Get help, every individual is important, and you should not judge yourself against everyone else. I think you are having a pity party because you are not the centre of attention and are living in your own personal hell. Jesus has an answer to that, follow him
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    Oct 8, 2017, 06:16 PM
    Because we can't go to hell for anyone, And we don't suffer for anyone, we suffer (if needed) for what is right. That is often for a general good, not anyone specific

    The issue is that everyone is important and no one is important, we all have the same value

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