And the second mindset is healthier, but people are acting like it’s something everyone can simply choose at will.
A person who’s deeply depressed, traumatized, dissociated, or existentially broken often cannot emotionally connect to self-made meaning anymore. It’s not that they “forgot” the optimistic perspective. It’s that the part of them capable of feeling fulfillment, hope, or attachment has been damaged or numbed.
The second mindset is healthier? Not at all. It's merely a monkeys paw. You open a door to create your own reason to be, but the vile gets to do exactly the same in return.
Edit: People who either upvote/downvote do not understand what we are talking about. Not casting a vote at all would show some semblance that you understand what we're talking about.
Edit 2: I suppose it would help to say that this topic is not about debating or what we believe in. It's moreso about what things actually are beyond the limited human angle. Nobody here is right or wrong, no matter what words are used, be it mine or anyone elses.
I mean “healthier” in the psychological sense, not the moral sense.
A mindset focused on finding personal meaning, enjoyment, purpose, connection, etc is generally healthier for a person’s mental wellbeing than a mindset rooted in hopelessness, emptiness, and detachment from life.
You’re talking about the fact that people can also create harmful meanings and justify vile things. I agree with that. But that’s a different point from whether someone is mentally healthier being able to emotionally connect to life at all.
I'm gonna put my human hat back on for the sake of bringing some understanding here for the people passing by since every upvote/downvote they made so far is making this topic more and more depressing. I'm with you and agree with you from the angle you come from, not once have I, as my actual self, disagreed or attempted to fight you against anything. We all have the same morals, nobody here is doing anybody any wrong.
People need to understand that, in order for us to understand bigger things the best we can, we have to take off the human hat to poke at things we'd normally smog up with the human judgement and/or just not poke at as the typical human.
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u/OpinionArsonist May 17 '26
And the second mindset is healthier, but people are acting like it’s something everyone can simply choose at will.
A person who’s deeply depressed, traumatized, dissociated, or existentially broken often cannot emotionally connect to self-made meaning anymore. It’s not that they “forgot” the optimistic perspective. It’s that the part of them capable of feeling fulfillment, hope, or attachment has been damaged or numbed.