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2018-12-15 at 3:41 AM UTCFrankly sometimes people need to die. 🤗
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2018-12-15 at 3:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by HTS I mean, yes I would mind if I got killed or a loved one got killed, but I wouldn't mind if a complete stranger did. There are probably thousands of people out there being killed RIGHT NOW, and I don't care at all. And honestly? You probably don't either. Even if you heard their names, saw a picture of them, read an article describing their life and family and knew they were now dead… I doubt you would really care.
You're smart enough to see where this is going, I think. I'm not saying I ever will kill anyone, for the record. I'm just saying I probably could without feeling too bad about it, especially if they were a stranger. I don't really think this is a unique perspective on taking another person's life either. If it were, war would be impossible. *shrug*
Okay, well this is kind of taking on a different tangent.
The hypothetical scenario proposed involves me being directly involved in this person's death. Even if they're a total stranger, I don't want that kind of guilt on my mind for the rest of my life.
But I do see what you're saying about how you can't care about every single human being on the planet. It's just completely unfeasible.
With dozens of people dying every, what, minute, you'd just be crying and grieving all day.
I would, however, feel all the much worse if I somehow contributed to one of those dozens of deaths per minute.
It might not be my job/duty to save them all, but it's definitely part of my duty to not kill them personally. -
2018-12-15 at 4:01 AM UTCAlso, for the record, I actually can honestly say that I do care about these strangers dying, it's just that you have to ration your care out, basically.
Sometimes I sit there and just picture how many people have died since yesterday, from disease, famine, war, crime, suicide, falling down the stairs, asphyxiating themselves while masturbating, ETC.... And I do feel a bit of a dip in my mood, because it's sad.
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2018-12-15 at 4:03 AM UTCWhich sort of death makes you the saddest?
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2018-12-15 at 4:09 AM UTC
Originally posted by RisiR †Which sort of death makes you the saddest?
Lovely question to contemplate this evening...
It would probably be a function of how long, drawn out, and painful it was.
I suppose young children dying of diseases that slowly kill them depresses me quite a bit especially, since they don't really have the maturity to understand it.
I'm actually not one of those "OMG SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" types that finds a child dying significantly more tragic than an adult dying, but there's something really sad about a kid living their last days out as a kid with inoperable cancer or something like that, every day knowing that they will never get to try the things adults try.
Also, becoming a widow/widower after like 50 years of marriage. That sounds devastating.
Hmm, what else...
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2018-12-15 at 4:13 AM UTCActually, I think the worst possible death I can imagine, would be being framed for a murder in a place where they still have the death penalty, and then nobody believing in your innocence, and then you're sitting in that chair where all the people go to watch (don't get me started on how sick and depraved that is to me - even if they actually are guilty), and you have all these people cheering on for this innocent person's death.
And once it's over, their reputation is completely irreparable.
That might just be the most depressing death I can think of.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-12-15 at 4:16 AM UTC
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2018-12-15 at 4:17 AM UTCGetting framed for the murder of your wife and dog and dying infront of a cheering crowd while your only child is left behind slowely dying of cancer and you're unable to be there for it and say goodbye.
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2018-12-15 at 4:23 AM UTC
Originally posted by RisiR †Getting framed for the murder of your wife and dog and dying infront of a cheering crowd while your only child is left behind slowely dying of cancer and you're unable to be there for it and say goodbye.
Luckily I am currently imbibing in my beloved drink, which kinda helps reduce the bluntness of such things.
But got damn that is a depressing storyline.
OH, OH, and... your child ends up dying believing that you murderered his mother, and utters words of hatred for you with his dying breaths.
OH, and also, that kids mother was a cancer researcher who was actually close to a cure. She was murdered literally days before she was meant to discover it.
Plus it's dark and raining throughout the entire narrative, just to add to the effect.
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2018-12-15 at 4:28 AM UTCYour dog that was killed in cruesomefashion actually saved your life once and was the very reason you met your wife in the first place because you met her at the park you went to walking your dog. It was the first thing you two connected over. Your love of dogs.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-15 at 4:31 AM UTCRight before you are being chained up to take the walk to the chair the prison guard hands you a photo of your child laying in the hospital bed and next to it is the person you only saw a glimpse of before getting knocked out in your living room the day the murders happened.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-15 at 4:37 AM UTCWe can write the worlds most tragic story ever together and then try to get Hollywood to produce it.
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2018-12-15 at 4:38 AM UTCWe need Mel Gibson to pay for it. I don't want any jedis to get involved.
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2018-12-15 at 4:48 AM UTC
Originally posted by RisiR †We need Mel Gibson to pay for it. I don't want any jedis to get involved.
Now that you mention it, the story line almost sounds like a modern-day Passion of the Christ.
If we throw in a jedi judge and jedi prosecutor, our protagonist becomes personally persecuted by the jedis.
How could he say no us? -
2018-12-15 at 4:50 AM UTCHe can't or we frame him for the murder of his wife and dog.
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2018-12-15 at 4:52 AM UTCSadception indeed.
