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I never benefited from "meaningful" relationships so the choice is pretty easy actually.

Do you have children? That was a prerequisite for the question. If you do, it implies you don’t consider the relationship with your children either meaningful or beneficial, which says…a lot.

If I asked a tiger if murder is wrong i would get a different answer as opposed to a human. What kind of argument are you making.

You wouldn't get an answer from a tiger. Sorry, my lack of empathy for you is making me woefully obtuse.

Transformational experience colors the way we see the world because it literally changes our psychology. If you haven’t gone through a particular transformational experience, you are just speculating.

It’s like asking, “could you be happy if you were a double amputee?” I trust the answer of an actual amputee than someone just guessing.

The tiger thing is just a weird digression, considering this conversation started with the premise that humans are an innately social species. Let’s keep the discussion on point with humans.

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