I noted an odd factoid about Buffett in an article recently referenced on FR. Buffett reportedly spent a lot of his time in church figuring out the average life spans of hymn authors from the biographical data in the church hymnal, and apparently thought they tended to be disappointingly brief. So, Buffett apparently concluded, if you’re devout enough to want to write a hymn you probably aren’t going to live long. Too bad he didn’t understand that some of the most beautiful art in the world is born of suffering.
Well said.
Life is suffering. There is value and good in suffering. If people like Buffett understood this they wouldn’t be choosing to kill people over permitting them to overcome suffering.
It’s also the same rationale that is used to toss out the lives of disabled people like me. Not like we could actually amount to anything, eh?