🔬 Science 20h ago · Jonny Thomson

You’re allowed to be happy. In fact, you have a duty to be.

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You’re allowed to be happy. In fact, you have a duty to be.
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Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir were having a drink when de Beauvoir asked how anybody can be happy in a world so full of misery. How can they laugh and drink and dance when millions of people are being murdered and abused?
It’s a good question, and one I’m sure many of us have asked at one time or another. Unless you’ve made a deliberate effort to avoid even a glimpse of the news, you know that the world contains vast and intense suffering: wars, murders, and abuse, of course, but also sick

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