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Think about how hard the world can be. Imagine being on a battlefield in world war 1, surrounded by non stop explosions and the corpses of your friends. Imagine being arrested by Stalin's secret police and brought to a gulag and you slowly watch the people around you dying and there's no future besides slowly fading away for any of you. Imagine it's the holodomor and you're seeing your children are skin and bones and if you try to go into your fields to find a few stray grains you'll be shit but if they don't get food your children -- your future -- will die. Imagine the arctic explorers who were in a wasteland of ice for 1000km all around them and they had to choose to leave friends corpses behind and kill and eat their sled dogs just to have the energy to go one more day. The human race has had a number of choke points genetically where we all have a single common ancestor because the human race was that close to extinction, life was that hard. Some people are born with horrific diseases that mangle their bodies and make sure they'll never lead anything like a normal life.

And people lived through that -- chose to live through that -- and often continued to until they died of natural causes if they made it through those moments.