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by EchoChamberMan 854 days ago
How could you possibly even begin to speak for others like this?

[Edit] There's billions of people on the planet, and you only might know yourself, and I only might know myself. So we know about 0% of current people. Not sure how old the earth is, but there's roughly 3 trillion years since the big bang, and so we've experienced about 0% of that. Seems hard to make such a sweeping statement as yours. Maybe you're considering life span, to which I'd reply "tis better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all," which is to say a long life isn't necessarily a good one. And before you bring up averages, averages are poor metrics. 999 + 1 / 2 = 500, and 500 is pretty far from 1.

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>How could you possibly even begin to speak for others like this?

It's the entitlement of the wealthy.

It's the entitlement of the stupid. Take the average and assume everyone and everything equals the average.