It's a dog-eat-dog world and society doesn't care as much about individuals as it pretends to... for example, suicide.

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My opinions are probably pretty controversial in regards to suicide, I agree with what you are saying. I think a lot of people tend to act as if they care about somebody who is suicidal, or they have some sort of hero-complex that makes them think they are good people. I've been in some really dark places before and used to use Reddit as a way to vent my fustration, and most of the replies were just copy/paste templates of one another. Usually referalls to suicide hotlines and such. It makes you wonder if they really think they're helping by posting those things or if they can honestly comprehend what you are going through.

Truth is they can't, there's always going to be a disconnect between those that are going through shit and those that aren't. It doesn't help when you feel like you're the only one experiencing it aswell, and all you are getting are the typical replies you would expect. It pisses me off to be honest.

I dunno, life is short and shit. :/

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Yeah the inability to understand isn't too different than what somebody else said here but i'm coming from a different direction. Kind of like how people are competitive but also i think a lot of people feel deep down that our world is a zero-sum game (which could be argued it really is) meaning less people you have to split the pie with means a bigger slice for yourself. I've lived quite a few years in a different country with a very different culture and in the US get that feeling much more that it's everybody's job to be concerned for themselves.

I guess you could call it being hypocritical... when it comes to suicide they act like such virtuous people but then if you were to examine many other areas of their life you would be able to see they really aren't.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRgweL12Uc this george carlin bit feels somewhat correlated to my point here when he talks about how people are disingenuous when they hear about tragedy in the news.