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ITT: We drool over Chesterton's profound misunderstanding of psychology as if it is sacred insight

Depression is anger turned upon the self. Suicide is the completion of that rage, i.e. suicide is the victory of your rage over you. To frame it as a "crime" or "sin" (they are different words for the same thing) against "everything" displays Chesterton exactly as what we all know him to be: a man who for all his powers of perception and wordplay could not work up a thimbleful of empathy