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comment by Pribnow
Pribnow  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm not walking at my High School graduation.

So your advice boils down to: You're one person. There are billions of other people in the world. There is always more you can do for other people, to make other people happy, so you should never do anything to make yourself happy. Always put everyone else first.

This is just as accurate a summary as yours is and I think BOTH fail to reflect the actual reality of the situation (and the content of what we were summarizing). There are plenty of compromises that don't leave any people unhappy.





b_b  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you comparing strangers with your family? Are all people in the world equal to you? Is your mother the same to you as some stranger's mother? I don't get your point.