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>>14732085
The same thing that leads every non-pessimist, non-antinatalist, self-improved, optimistic person to their downfall.
Believing that you have any kind of control over your quality of life, that willpower can beat anything, and that nature/life/god/whatever you wanna call it/etc can't wipe out everything you have and leave you in complete helpless misery begging to die.

Daddy Jordan over there thought he knew what suffering was, but eventually got punched a couple times I guess. I guess also cleaning your room can't prevent your wife from getting cancer. I guess cleaning your room also doesn't prevent your brain from getting addicted to addictive chemicals. Not even if you only eat meat. I guess the people he looked down on just had a harder life than he thought, and now even doing the responsible thing and going to the doctor is not enough, because medical help in the US doesn't really help that much in some cases.

But anyway, please just go ahead and call me weak and doubt me. Tell me I'm just not stoic enough, not religious enough, not hard working enough. Maybe you're right, or maybe the obvious blaring truth has just not presented itself to you yet.

Humans are quick to put animals out of their misery, like a deer they accidentally hit with a car, or a dog with a terminal disease. But when it comes to other humans they become irrational, delusional, and tell all sorts of nonsense forcing the person to "enjoy" their suffering.