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that's not the joke.
"cynicism is hip, but it's exactly as irrational to start with optimism."
being cynical doesn't help anyone or anything. being optimistic does help things.
"You've got to start with what is, and what ought to be and work from there."
this is what I do.
you and the others defending "reasonable" genocide is not working toward what "ought to be", unless you believe that what "ought to be" is giving up on life or some drastic action like global genocide (which is also giving up)
Existential comics is a humour series. I disagree, it's a joke.
If that's what you do, good for you. For every few dark jokes there's someone posting "orphan crushing machine" style glurg. Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial.
I was not trying to fix the world with that post, I agree. Sometimes I do write something that helps someone, though. IRL I do a bunch of volunteer work.
The comic is supposed to be a joke, your attempted misdirect that the joke is about cthulhu's reasoning abilities is incorrect and doesn't track.
the comic wants to make a joke about the world being so bad that even a human can be convinced that all the humans should be killed by a world killing entity.
"Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial"
absolutely incorrect.
this statement is a symptom of your poisoned worldview that allows you and the others to unironically defend the reasoning for global genocide.
optimism in the face of horrors is not "denial", it springs from a more complete understanding of the world that you can change things.
I know that I can change things for the better because I change things for the better, whether it's difficult or not.
people who assume things can't change are the reason things don't change.
Guess you need to volunteer more.