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Does it really make your suffering feels better when everyone else is suffering? Hell can't be too bad then
There is a commonly used phrase, “misery loves company.”
Isn't this one of those sayings that has been reversed over the years? Wasn't it originally to mean that misery spreads misery? Though maybe I think that because some abuse it as a, "smile more" type of vapid advice.
Idk about feeling better but mass suffering drags down the baseline which might feel inclusive and less lonely if everyone is on same page.
As someone who has thought similar to this in the past I would say it's more about no longer worrying about things like how am I going to pay for a place to live, a car or other transportation, or caring for others with no job. I can imagine things may look better to them if someone hit the reset button on the world since they may have more of an opportunity to survive in the new world than in the current one.