Is a bear that falls in the woods Catholic? I don’t know, dude. You make some deep, meaningful points and I have a lot of thinking to do now.

This... doesn’t really add anything. Sometimes we think something is obvious “water is wet” - level common sense, and it still turns out to be wrong. Especially when it comes to long-standing cultural assumptions about sex and such.

God forbid we ask questions. Never mind that for a long time common sense told us that women just don’t like sex very much, and there’s no point in asking questions about it — and then we come up with empirical evidence that actually, they do, and common sense was quite wrong, and it’s a good thing we asked questions.…

Feels like in a few decades people will be writing retro mysteries with this train for a setting.

I know this is several years late, but a lot of what you write resonates so much with me that I felt a need to reply. I don’t have any solutions or advice. I’m not quite bad enough right now to be suicidal. I was for a while — ironically while I *was* employed, because I just hated my job so much — now I have been…

My thought is that people are finding things in video games that reality doesn’t give them, or that they see no way of finding in reality. We grow up expecting life to be an adventure, we want to do exciting things, creative things, joyful things. Some of us want to change the world. Then we become adults and find out…

Alternative suggestion: If we want more people to be employed when they have another option available, perhaps employment needs to be made more attractive. Or don’t we believe in the free market? If the price offered is too low, you don’t sell the product.

You probably didn’t carry this commenter for nine months, though, so why are you getting so high and mighty and judgey with them?

... Because they are being treated badly in an unfair way? Isn’t that usually a good reason to care? I mean, I don’t understand why you’re bragging about being apathetic or uncaring about other people. It’s unfortunately probably true that on average lots of people don’t care about the well-being of other human beings…