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Love the story!

> How much suffering can you ignore until you become the one who inflicts the suffering?

That's the question, isn't it.

I try not to think about philosophy, and I absolutely try not to mix philosophy with reality, because as far as I can tell, my intuition is fucked. But when I forget this self-proscription, I've often thought while passing by homeless people, that there's only two reasons why the situation is bad. One is the fact that they don't like being homeless. The other is the fact that I don't like witnessing them be homeless. And I can only change what I like, not what they like.

Of course, the above chain of reasoning is completely insane.

Similar topic can be found in this footnote of one of my posts, but I don't mean to spam:

https://theignorantschoolmaster.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-by-completing-a-marathon#footnote-1-148520762

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