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When global suffering makes you feel guilty for eating

I feel guilty eating when other people in the world are starving, like I don't deserve nourishment when others lack it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're using awareness of others' deprivation to justify depriving yourself, conflating self-denial with moral solidarity.

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