Regarding his 'Hell Is Other People' badge:
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2) Hell is other people
No, this does not mean other people are the worst and you should hide yourself in a dark, lonely room so that you don't have to put up with them. The line comes from a 1944 existentialist play by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called
Huis Clos, or
No Exit. In the play, three people are trapped in Hell — which is a single room — and ultimately, while confessing their sins to one another, end up falling into a bizarre love triangle.
The confinement of the characters extends beyond their physical holding room: they are trapped by the judgments of their cellmates. That's why one of the characters says, "Hell is other people" — because of how we are unable to escape the watchful gaze of everyone around us. "By there mere appearance of the Other," says Sartre in
Being and Nothingness, "I am put in the position of passing judgment on myself as on an object, for it is as an object that I appear to the Other."
Sartre offered a
clarification about his much misunderstood phrase:
"Hell is other people" has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because … when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves.
As Rugnetta explains: "Hell is other people because you are, in some sense, forever trapped within them, subject to their apprehension of you.""
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7229547/philosophy-quotes-misunderstood-wittgenstein-sartre-descartes