What's stopped you giving up?

2 days ago by LadyButterfly she/her to c/mentalhealth

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Pratai 1 point 2 days ago

Red Reddington from the show The Blacklist has an amazing take that resonates with me. He said:

Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing?

I have. June 29th, 2003. I was meeting two associates at the Marouche restaurant in Tel Aviv. As my car was pulling up, a 20-year-old Palestinian named Ghazi Safar entered the restaurant and detonated a vest wired with C-4

The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn't hear. The smoke... It was like being under water. I went inside. A nightmare. Blood, parts of people. You could tell where Safar was standing when the vest blew. It was like a perfect circle of death. There was almost nothing left of the people closest to him. Seventeen dead, 46 injured. Blown to pieces. The closer they were to the bomber, the more horrific the effect

That's every suicide. Every single one. An act of terror perpetrated against everyone who's ever known you. Everyone who's ever loved you. The people closest to you, the ones who cherish you are the ones who suffer the most pain, the most damage. Why would you do that? Why would you do that to people who love you?

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Madagaskar_sky 4 points 2 days ago

That's an amazingly horrible analogy.

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Pratai 2 points 2 days ago

It is. But it’s a very real one and a damn good comparison if you ask me.

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Madagaskar_sky 6 points 2 days ago

Oh no, I meant it's a horrible analogy in all respects. I think convincing people to stay around by guilt tripping them, especially through a comparison to terrorism, is horrible.

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