Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America?

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Life has the same value to every living human.

  That’s an extreme oversimplification, and that way of looking at it completely ignores people with depression and people committing suicide.
  Obviously a life in suffering is more likely to cause depression, and a life in depression is subjectively worth less.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life, and you cannot substract it away from it.

    I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other troubles. I don’t know why it should affect the value of life? How would you value a life with no arms and legs, for example? How would the person with no arms and legs value their own life? Have you ever asked one?

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life

      I think you skipped and interim there.

      I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other diseases or troubles.

      There must be a lot of things in life you don’t know. You can be dying of cancer and not be depressed and want to live on. And you can have a serious depression where you just want to die. If you can’t tell the difference between those two conditions, and why one is more detrimental to life quality than the other, I don’t see we can have anything to talk about. That level of ignorance is beyond debatable.

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      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You seem to think that…

        SUBJECTIVE

        … deserves so many capital letters AND is the only thing that counts. Well, then maybe I should officially allow you to NOT read my texts anymore.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get the point you’re making but in the context of the OP the reply didn’t seem too far off. Yours though is getting pretty close to declaring a depression epidemic in Latin America, I presume because your saw red in their reply

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No that was a generalization, not specifically related to Latin America.
      Regarding that read my other response.

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