A different perspective

[Ahriman]

I miss my old friends. I think about them every day. I doubt any new friends I could make would live up to what I used to have.

[The Grand Nudger]

Get out there and test that theory.

[Ahriman]

I'll get around to it. But about the soul forge. I like that idea a lot, and I'm not particularly willing to back off it.

[The Grand Nudger]

I like vanilla icecream, won't be backing off of that. The issues with the forge remain whether you like the idea or not.

[Cavalry]

Interesting therapy session going on here. This guy's good.

[Ahriman]

I like vanilla icecream, won't be backing off of that.  The issues with the forge remain whether you like the idea or not.

The soul forge is a perfect system. It makes perfect sense.

[The Grand Nudger]

Except for how it doesn't work, can't work, and even if it somehow could, hasn't been working on you as an example of a sufferer being forged.

Sure, aside from all that, perfect. Top notch, 10/10.

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Interesting therapy session going on here. This guy's good.

Yet another service we provide.

[Ahriman]

Did I mention the soul forgee only reaps the benefit of his/her suffering in the afterlife, and not while living in this world?

[Angrboda]

Did I mention the soul forgee only reaps the benefit of his/her suffering in the afterlife, and not while living in this world?

The just-world hypothesis or just-world fallacy is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor. For example, the assumptions that noble actions will eventually be rewarded and evil actions will eventually be punished fall under this hypothesis. In other words, the just-world hypothesis is the tendency to attribute consequences to—or expect consequences as the result of— either a universal force that restores moral balance or a universal connection between the nature of actions and their results. This belief generally implies the existence of cosmic justice, destiny, divine providence, desert, stability, and/or order. It is often associated with a variety of fundamental fallacies, especially in regard to rationalizing suffering on the grounds that the sufferers "deserve" it.

Wikipedia || Just-world hypothesis

[The Grand Nudger]

Did I mention the soul forgee only reaps the benefit of his/her suffering in the afterlife, and not while living in this world?

What benefits, it cant work as described.  Human beings are just too damned good at not suffering. People worse off than yourself..and I don't mean a little, I mean alot.. are (apparently) much happier than you are. It's a simpletons idea right on the face of it.

The soul forge is a bit different than just world, btw angr. A soul forge may be unjust - no one does anything in particular to deserve it - it's just there to mold the clay or fire it.