Hope is an incredibly powerful tool. It can help humans persevere through the most painful experiences, and it keeps many of us going at the end of the day. Even if nothing went your way this week, you can hold onto the hope that everything will turn around next week. None of us can predict the future, so for all you know, something amazing will happen!

But being optimistic can be exhausting at times. And some people have decided that they have to give up on views and ideas that just aren’t realistic. Redditors have recently been discussing things that they just can't believe in anymore, so we’ve gathered some of their brutally honest replies below. We realize that this isn’t the most uplifting topic, but we hope it inspires you to finally let go of anything that’s no longer serving you. 

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#1

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest The intelligence and compassion of my fellow humans.

It turns out that decades of catering to the lowest common denominator has reduced our species to selfish, brutish animals who avoid thinking at any cost.

The world is literally on fire, but too many people would rather have someone else do all of the hard thinking for them and then complain about the consequences later.

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I can no longer hold empathy or patience for the willfully ignorant.

I'm tired of living in a world where people willingly avoid any form of critical thinking by having someone else make the "big decisions" for them - only to then whine about the consequences for their actions.

I'm tired of living in a world where people are mocked for being learned. Where literacy is considered a niche interest. Where people deride artists, but demand the fruits of their labor.

I'm tired of being in a world where someone's worth is centered around how much money they have.

I'm tired of people stepping over their neighbors in order to get ahead.

I'm tired of people demanding the benefits of living in a society, while complaining about having to contribute to it.

I'm just done with people in general.

It turns out that actual intelligence is such a rare quality in humans that it's practically a rounding error at this point.

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#2

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest Karma. Bad people do bad things and get away with it.

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#3

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest That hard work alone ensures success. I've seen too many cases when the appropriate timing and connectivity are required.

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#4

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest America.

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#5

I no longer believe the United States will remain a democracy.

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#6

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest Faith in my fellow human beings. LMAO what a joke. I thought we were better than this but here are.

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#7

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe that integrity matters, or that laws have meaning, or that the truth is important.

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#8

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe in the idea that 'everything happens for a reason.' Sometimes, things just happen—random, unplanned, and without deeper meaning. I've found it more comforting to focus on making the best of what life throws my way rather than trying to search for some cosmic justification behind every tough moment. Sometimes, life is chaotic and unpredictable, and that’s okay. It’s what we do with it that matters most.

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#9

The Mormon church. I was a member for 21 years. I hated it. I hated what I had to believe. I hated the kind of person I had to be. I hated everything about the church. But I believed it was 100 percent true. So I lived it for 21 years. The day I let myself accept it wasn't true was one of the most freeing feeling I've ever experienced.

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#10

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest That I was supposed to know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life at 18.

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#11

The decency of my neighbors. Trump won this round decisively, the American people have spoken and they want... *That*.

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#12

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest People, Justice, and Common sense.

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#13

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest I dunno. I don't really believe in anything anymore. Life in general is an empty, meaningless slog. I admire those who can enjoy it because it's impossible for me.

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#14

That most Americans are not stupid.

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#15

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest I no longer believe in 'finding the right time'. If you wait for something to happen, you can always find an excuse not to start it.

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The future of our Constitutional Republic. Clearly this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

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#17

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest the fallacy that one can function with less than eight hours of sleep. People, coffee can only do so much.

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#18

Democracy. I no longer see republicans as people.

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#19

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest That facts matter. narrative is more important.

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#20

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest The survival of the human race in the face of climate change.

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#21

The decency and intelligence and sense of ethics of the vast majority of humans.

Most people are not bad, but indifferent to evil and they refuse to learn, to understand the world around them, to understand cause and effect and to have at least the basic empathy.

Most people are not bad, but they want bad people to govern and they don't care about evil unless evil and bad policies affect them directly. And I mean directly them, not their family their friends, their community. Them.

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#22

That humans are good by default. This election result was the final nail in the coffin.

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#23

Remember when we were all little kids and it was drilled into our heads how we were the best nation in the world? Welp.

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#24

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest That adults have everything figured out and their life is a smooth journey on a fixed path.

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#25

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest Humanity.

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#26

“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest Hope for the future.

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“What Is One Thing You No Longer Believe In?”: 27 People Get Brutally Honest The belief that people can influence others. I've learnt that people must want to improve themselves, you cannot do it for them.

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