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Why universal compassion from near-death becomes dysfunctional

I flatlined during the stroke and experienced infinite compassion for every living being throughout all of history and now I cannot eat meat or watch the news or function in a world built on suffering.

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Exposure to boundless empathy has made participation in ordinary life feel like complicity in cosmic cruelty.

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