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You call it a birthright, I call it a delusion brought on by the mind to make life seem bearable in keeping with or biological mandate to strive to keep living. You people see my take as “twisted mind” I see yours as delusional and childishly naive. It’s like a mantra you repeat until you believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary. For one to think this system is wonderful, this system which dictates the harsh realities of life for so many, one clearly must live in a safe socioeconomic bubble of relative comfort. I suppose the people dying of poverty, hunger, or war don’t spend much time on Substack. The people dying from exposure to them elements due to lack of housing probably don’t feel like their salvation lies in chat forums. And they’d be right. People LOVE to pontificate about how good and virtuous they are, love to drone on and on about the “wonder of life”. Believe me, I’ve been homeless. You would not feel this way if you knew how little society values your life and how meaningless you are to the populace at large. But like Caitlyn said in her latest letter, she never thought that anyone could feel this way, so obviously I do t know what I’m talking about, right?

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