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Right, you prefer other conditions because they're better.

We have decades of research to show that more space and privacy is not merely a matter of comfort. Or, if it is, that "comfort" affects more things than one would expect.

I've already linked to them above.

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I grew up in conditions you would never countenance and I’m incredibly well adjusted. What value are your systems when they lead to your trauma. You are constantly traumatized and I am not, despite facing conditions you could not believe.

Either I am inherently an übermensch or my methods are better. You have your loneliness epidemics, your PTSD, and your therapy. I don’t.

Or to put it evocatively:

https://x.com/pjayevans/status/1612904509575139328?s=46

This would be an excellent rebuttal to the claim that everyone who experiences a specific type of hardship later has a specific outcome.

But for the claim you're responding to, this appears to mostly just be some cringey self-aggrandizement?

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