Reality is king. You can't protect your friends & family by helping them deny it.
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Not scared of this but that's exactly what it does and most do not want the truth of reality, but the convenience of denial to hold onto what they find comfortable.
Yeah, the quickest path to popularity is generally to celebrate people for their vices--providing them a sort of moral support for their slow motion suicide. But then in what direction does that move the world & what would that make us? The truth & reality are really the only path to any meaningful sort of respect from others or kindness toward them.
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