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South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'

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Re: South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'

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What? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.

Lack of involvement with the father or over-involvement with the mother may result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers.

Much as I value a Robyn Hitchcock reference, please don't troll on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'

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Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.

What? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.

It's a quote from a song which satirizes this way of thinking.

Re: South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'

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Religion has many positive benefits on society. We minister to those within our own congregation and are aware of individuals needs. A sense of community is fostered and people are concerned about more than themselves. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back to people discovering religion?

Why can people only imagine building communities around religion and family? There are other options available that don't tend to be so hateful towards people they don't understand. For example, Epicurus proposed living in communes with friends and that seemed to work well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_47J6sy3A

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The same argument can be made for becoming a regular at a bar, lol.

The strength of the religious congregations is that they have a built-in forcing function that drives a regular attendance and brings families and individuals together. You must go to avoid hell, drives more attendance than going to avoid possible, future loneliness. I am an ardent atheist, but this aspect of religion makes me wish I too was delusional.

Religion looks around at everything and asks ‘is this all meaningful or not?’

Religion says ‘yes’ and the doubt is bridged by faith (as is all doubt, since most of human life has necessary doubt that can’t be proven one way or the other).

Some people say that having meaning/doubt is delusional.

Re: South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'

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Wouldn't it be the other way? If home ownership (and renting) became so expensive no one could possibly do it without multiple incomes people would be forced to find roommates.

Doesn’t seem to be the case. > macroeconomic conditions such as soaring housing prices and intense employment pressure also come into play, forcing many people to give up trying to tie the knot https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204140/y...

"Tying the knot" is not the same has having to find roommates. In general, one is often about supporting another as well as committing to a lifetime together. Neither of those have anything to do with finding roommates.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-driven-record-rents-m...

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