This is a crosspost from my blog post. It's meant as a bit of an introduction to an extreme-suffering focused worldview.

We spend most of our lives caught up in the boring details of our everyday life - thinking about what we’ll have for lunch, how to complete that assignment for work, and what we’re going to tell our friend after that awkward interaction from a couple of days ago. From this perspective, our world looks a bit better than purgatory. It has its ups and its downs, but the ups certainly outweigh the downs, and there's almost always enough hope to go around.

But, despite this, we must remember that our world contains hell.

Every year, five million children under the age of five pass away. This means that, every six seconds, parents have the worst thing that could ever happen to a person happen to them. They have the most special and important thing in their entire life irreversibly and permanently taken away. And, as much as we want to help them, we know that there's nothing we can do to lessen their grief.

For another example, currently, there are three million adults worldwide who live with [...]

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First published:
August 20th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/A2kJKqnHhh5Hq4p2S/we-must-remember-that-our-world-contains-hell

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“We Must Remember That Our World Contains Hell” by James Brobin

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“We Must Remember That Our World Contains Hell” by James Brobin