This is probably the most condescending comment I have read on HN all year.

The comment you’re responding to is trying to genuinely explore their beliefs and it’s kinda gross for you to shit all over it in an ostracizing way. If you disagree then engage with your perspective without being unkind. The style of your response is in general the root of many society’s problems and I would have thought someone who espouses mind expanding practices would be better aware of that

I feel very deeply that my life is full of meaning, so it can't be projection. Not interested in trying to suppress my feelings with drugs either.

> Not at all. It's the reason we have literally everything we have. This is the type of person that society needs

I think this misses his point. I believe the despair is precisely that we dont need speedrunners and such. And that its not benefitting is like the mattress spring expert is.

> There is no meaning or purpose

If you believe this, then surely you can understand why he would feel despair over something that justifies itself in there being no meaning nor purpose.