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I think I've always know this on some level which is why I've always been obsessed with making up stories and characters since I was little, since even a child can conceive of a "better" world than the one that exists, although it is just that, an imaginary world.

A way to prove this is tricker but think of it like this. Say you have three doors in front of you and you are asked to open one of them. One door has a prize, one a penalty, and one has nothing and obviously you have no way of knowing which holds what. Once you open one door the others will be locked for the rest of time. From here say you open the first door and it is the penalty, this is obviously bad. Say you open the second door and it is nothing, well you could argue that it isn't good or bad but you would be wrong. You see, if you opened the second door that means you didn't open the first door which means you couldn't have received the penalty and thus were not "saved" or "fortunate" to avoid it. You can imagine a "what if" where you did get it but that is just a "what if" and is irrelevant because it never happened and because humans can only perceive time in one direction it will never happen effectively nullifying it. This also works the same way for you missing out on the reward, you didn't so much miss out as you never had any chance to get it in the first place, you were lied to. Hell for all you know there was never a prize or penalty go begin with and you were just being manipulated. Now lastly say you open the third door and win your prize, most would say there's no way to twist this into a negative thing but I have several. Firstly similar to the other doors if you opened the third then you didn't so much as "win" or "benefit" but are merely accepting something you were destined to gain and you were never at danger of getting the penalty or the empty door. Secondly a prize is only a prize under certain conditions, if you win a bunch of money and then someone murders you for it the next day then you would regret opening the third door right? Someone will say that this applies in reverse to the penalty, that opening door one could have some roundabout positives but the difference between the two is in that reality you would be guaranteed to suffer in exchange for a boon that may or may not ever come compared to a "boon" with suffering that WILL come. That brings me to my third point against door three, that being that humans (and all living things) only exist to desire. If you are given what you want or get a prize that might make you momentarily happy (happiness being the most fragile emotion by the way) but you will simply start striving for more in short time. Now I know what you want to say "Well RK you did manage to prove all of the doors are bad, but surely one must be the best and the one the worst." to that I ask you to consider that action creates fate. I mentioned this above but to explain a bit more, once you pick a door you were fated to pick that door. That doesn't mean you were predestined to pick that door from the moment you were born or anything, just that by opening one you lock yourself into that path and because the relation we have with time you were "fated" to pick that door. What this means is that whichever door you picked it is the worst door because they all have negatives that you will feel and the negatives of the other doors are rendered nullifying and void in your reality. Like the second door you can never be sure of the contents of the other doors either after opening them. Even if you still think the prize door is the best, if you opened the penalty door you have no way of ever knowing if the prize door even really existed and if you did open a "prize" door you don't know if the other two doors had prizes behind them making it even more meaningless than I already pointed it out to be. Now take everything I said and apply it to real life and you'll see that every action we take, every interaction we have, every single aspect of the universe is the worst possible one since it is the one that exists while any "better" or "worse" ones don't exist and never will and thus can't be compared to reality.