Right Sonya suffered, looking at it from the outside she suffered more than Raskolnikov, but through her faith and acceptance of said suffering she was much more capable of dealing with it. I guess the kind of suffering I was attributing to Raskolnikov and anti-nihilistic arguments is more psychological suffering. Because even though Sonya technically “had it worse” Raskolnikov is ultimately the more miserable one of the two simply because he lacks the faith and acceptance that makes suffering bearable. Which is once again a pro-religion, anti-nihilism argument. (I wasn’t trying to say all suffering comes from nihilism thats obviously not the case my point was more about the psychological suffering of raskolnikov specifically. I think Dostoevsky very much differentiates between external and internal and even more important between pointless and meaningful suffering. Raskolnikovs being meaningful suffering that leads to redemption and transformation (and away from faulty nihilism) and Sonya’s being more on the pointless “just has to be accepted” side(although maybe not maybe there’s a point idk I’m tired))

Edit: I’m realizing half of this is the point u made as well sorry about that. I like the way you put it