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Then my mom chimed in with something like "or the world can be a happy place, it is what you make it".

I'm well versed on her counter-argument so I came back hard with a punishing "yeah you can be ignorant to reality and put the blinders on but that wont change the fact there are still children born with horrible birth defects, people still living in slavery, a woman getting raped somewhere right now, a child being molested, a dog dying or a plane crashing, even the Buddha said "life is suffering"".



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Just because there is suffering in the world does not mean that on a daily basis you cannot make it a slightly better place by doing things like: refusing to engage in dick-like moves, showing consideration to others, etc.