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How to deal with living in a world with no future without being high 24/7? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been high nonstop for years. I realize it's bad for my health. But at least being high feels good.

My future is on a planet becoming increasingly unhabitable, under a government becoming increasingly fascist, doing nothing but working and still not being able to afford rent or food, never traveling, never making real friends much less finding a life partner, water quickly becoming a luxury, and with zero chance of ever retiring.

So why even bother?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For me, it's just math. The odds of things getting better if I try may be low, but the odds if I don't are even lower. I'll take the higher odds every time.

For you, have you considered spite? Live the best life you can to prove wrong everyone who tried to stop you, and do as much good in the world as you can so those trying to do evil have to try just that little bit harder. It only takes one good hit to ruin a superior opponent's perfect game, and you can only get that hit if you keep playing.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Climate change wouldn't be as bad as it is today if we didn't fix the ozone layer destruction trend.

A lot of the failing democracies around the world wouldn't be failing as badly if people who drank bleach and licked measles sores because Facebook said it would make them immortal actually died from the consequences instead of surviving to go on and share the posts again.

Sometimes making things better actually does make them worse.

Saving the deer from the wolf can have catastrophic effects.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you’re saying we shoulda kept some of the ozone hole around?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Kind of.

It should have been addressed and will still be around for decades despite healing, and it is a poster case for "see silly humans, you can mend your ways."

But there is also a cooling effect to a giant hole opposite to the effect of CO2 and improving the ozone may have slightly worsened the speed of warming as a result.