If this is true, why was he so pessimistic?

>>9839297
because compassion implies both the suffering and boredom he thought life consisted of is expanded beyond your own experience

>>9839297
He thought people couldn't get excited enough to act on their compassion albeit having it.

>>9839297
Because compassion/empathy requires exposing yourself to situations of self-sacrifice and most people are all about "muh dick", thus following the lack of self-sacrifice and rising individualism already apparent in the XIX century he become more and more pessimistic.

>>9839297
Compassion comes out of sorrow. Those who have suffered more, tend to be more empathetic

>>9839533
Is that right? I've suffered a lot and it just makes me a misanthropist.

>>9839533
Come on. This isn't Facebook. There's no need to act like that statement makes any sense.

>>9839584
It makes perfect sense

>>9839297
Because he saw the proceedings of Hegelianism, whom he accused of moral rotting of intelligentsia.

>>9839297

Because of his compassion.

>>9839628
Suffering can't physically make you more emphatically responsive than you already are. It can only help you more easily relate to people that are in a situation similar to yours. Under certain circumstances.

>>9839628
i could argue with examples but you would say they're exceptions. i could call you an edgelord but you would embrace the meme. just know that i fundamentally disagree with you, and my own limited suffering has probably made me more insufferable and cuntish

>>9840373
Suffering can make you more susceptible to relate others misfortunes. This is 101 growing up. Even if you disagree now, you'll agree with it when you mature

>>9840456
This is literally what I said.

>>9840456
>you'll understand when you're older
The oldest copout in argument history