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When awareness of suffering creates guilt about joy

I feel guilty for being happy when there is so much suffering in the world and this guilt is now preventing me from enjoying anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Expanded empathy can become a prison when it transforms natural happiness into a source of moral conflict.

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