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> appear to have survived

Plenty of kids appear to have committed suicide due to such experiences. This is a very literal example of "survivorship bias" :-)

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But some survived.

How many survived with zero food?

To be clear, I'm arguing the other way around: not that you can survive complete lack of food, but that there are people who did not survive complete lack of love.

That's confusing coincidence with causality. You can't prove "complete lack of love", whatever that means, killed them.

I used "complete lack of love" as a short version of what another commenter wrote: "horrific orphanage experiences, growing up abused, and a complete lack of love".

I can agree that "complete lack of love" is rather hard to define, but are you sure that it's just a coincidence, when an abused, humiliated, tortured person commits suicide?

I'm confident it did cause some of them to commit suicide. I am arguing, as someone else said - some of them made it. Nobody survived without food. Therefore it is silly to suggest love is more fundamental than food to survival.

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