You can't justify loneliness by saying that some people are okay being lonely.

You can't justify loneliness by saying that some people are okay being lonely.

The vast majority of mentally and physically healthy people have a craving for social relationships, romance and sex. This is a stable biological imperative.

And those who do not do this and are lonely by their own choice are a tiny marginal layer of people who do not in any way affect the fact that for people the basic need is a craving for sociality and reproduction (that is, romance and sex). This in no way means that aromantics and asexuals and other people are "defective", they just do not change anything in general

Unfortunately, we do not have accurate statistics on people who are simply lonely by their own choice, but we can get religious statistics on monks, nuns and oblates.

For example, in the USA the number of Catholic male monks was 21,698 people, and female nuns 71,250 people. But that was 2004 and since then the number of monks has only decreased.

And with all this, there is a separate category of people who also fulfill monastic vows, these are oblates. But at the same time, they are even allowed to have relationships and children.

And in total, if you combine all the monastic people who voluntarily lead such a lifestyle, then you get less than 100,000 people. This is less than 0.02% of the population of the USA.

You can't say that such people are an example of the situation that "loneliness is normal."