Can you imagine if the frown turned into a smile upon hearing that? That’s the true depressing thought (that we would take pleasure in hearing of others misery).
“You shouldn’t be sad while others have it worse.”
Therefore,
“You shouldn’t be happy while others have it better.”
How dare you use my logic against me
Fallacy of relative privation
wHy DoN’t YoU jUsT bE hApPy?
Bro’s mustache grew like crazy
For a few people, this kind of thinking helps. It does for me, actually. When I feel like my life sucks it can help to compare myself to an imaginary Anglo-Saxon peasant woman during the invasion of the Sons of Lodbrok, and it actually helps to realize just how much better I have it than her.
But that doesn’t work for everyone, and even those it works for kinda need to do the comparison themselves, not have it pushed on them.
It can also make a person feel worse by making them feel like they’re a bad person for daring to have depression when there are others who have worse lives.
