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by D-Coder 3857 days ago
We're not measuring this as a binary value happy/unhappy. Not all losses are equal. Your children dying before you is worse than most other losses.
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In our culture. That might not be the case in every culture. Some cultures even practiced infanticide, others practiced child sacrifice. Surely it cannot universally be the worst thing or such practices could never exist.