You both made good points, but you're focusing too much on the "sex" aspect of it.
Absolutely not. We are both emphasizing precisely that Inceldom is not primarily about sex. If it was, escortcelling would be the solution and it obviously isn't, although it is a nice cope.
Why being an incel hurts and it's shitty? Because we get no validation.
Yes. You are right. And why is that?
It is a society's job to give you validation. It always has been. A society chooses what it will give validation for and that is what will encourage its members to act in certain ways and not others.
A society that gives validation for looks cannot survive long. Doing so encourages parasitic behaviors that a society cannot withstand in the long run (easy mode for good looks, NEETing for others). No society has ever been as lookist as ours in the past and ours will quickly cease to be so because it will collapse.
That is what being an incel means: you get to see in your own life that something is really wrong with our culture. Otherwise, even though you see that something may not be quite right, you shrug it off. This is what bluepillers do. They do not want to acknowledge the problem. If we were not incels, we would not want to acknowledge it either.
Validation can come in many forms and it's everpresent in our society, we always want to feel validated. Either by our peers, by a spouse, family. You get the point. Now being incel means you lack validation, therefore every action that you take you'll doubt yourself. Not only that but you won't even feel secure even if you choose the right things.
Which means that we have to recreate a source of validation for ourselves from the ground up. That is what most people call "a religion" (in the very broad sense). The west is dying because it has chosen gynolatry and lookism as its religion. A bad choice of religion is what kills societies.
Why being chad/good-looking or even being above-average is better than being incel? Because you don't lack validation, after you get enough of it you can pursue any interest that you want.
If you get too much validation, and for the wrong things, it will make you reckless. Which is what Stacies and Chad are. In their youth, the consequences are not visible yet. Later in life, different story.
And you don't need to feel a little voice in your head that wants you to breed and have sex, you have either option A) Which is to try and fail, thus fucking your self-esteem or B) Not trying and feeling shitty regardless. People make groups and do stuff because they like to belong, and like being validated.
As said above. What you are saying is that we need a religion and a church (the "groups" you mention). There is simply no other way.
I know that you're old and maybe, maybe in some part of yourself you think you prefer being alone and that it has certain perks.
It is not that really. I have just realized that the world was like it is and that I had to adapt.
Well let me tell you that everything you do alone you could've done with a spouse,
No, not today. Living with a spouse is enslavement.
and even if you did less you would feel more accomplished.
Maybe but that would be an illusion, and illusions never last. Sooner or later you hit a concrete wall in the dark at full speed. The most obvious example is when a betabuxxer (by far the majority of males) is divorce-raped in his 40s and has to lived being sucked dry and with no pussy for the rest of his life.
There's nothing "incredible" about life, it's just mother nature. Law of the jungle, that's why we're posting in a obscure forum about how ugly we are and our fucked up circumstances. The world is a cold and shitty place.
Absolutely correct. And that is why we have to adapt. No one is going to help us.
You can observe how much a shit is being an incel that we have a forum, of all things to discuss this shit. Also you can judge how much we "enjoy" life the quality of posts we make, the "camps" we have.
The suffering is undeniable. Nothing valuable comes without it. The reward comes when you understand what it means. What we are in the process of (re-)discovering are the fundamentals of human life. We are first finding out that our current culture is nonsensical and self-destructive and then that life is impossible without a sane worldview. That is what I have called "a religion" above. The blackpill is the beginning of that.
That can be classified as: the lazzies, the egoers or the downers.
Can you clarify what you mean by these categories ?
It's being an incel all that bad for everyone? Of course not, you don't have terminal cancer and some may even have enjoyable lives. Only thing they can't get laid, thus some "enjoyment" can be gotten off of their lives. Thing is, every person gets sex. Money you can get. Genuine attraction you cannot.
What is "genuine attraction"? There lies the rub. Under this seemingly "obvious" phrase lies a whole world of misunderstanding and misguided assumptions.