[ SECRET POST #4386 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4386 ⌋

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[soldatsasha]

Yeah, I think a lot of people who assume they wouldn't feel bad aren't really thinking it through. Many people in cases of unavoidable accidental death go through years or decades of extreme trauma and recovery. (Lots of people who run over a kid with their car never drive again or are even unable to be in vehicles at all, for example). And if you're talking about deliberately killing someone, like in self defense, that trauma can be even more huge. That's why militaries and police training and gangs and whatnot go to extreme lengths to condition their people to view their targets as "not people".

It's not bad to NOT feel bad, of course. Especially if it really was unavoidable, like you were protecting your kid from a rapist or something. But it's also realistic that someone would really struggle with it, and for a really long time.

Like, hypothetically, you're walking home from work and you get jumped. The attacker is a mid-30s black dude who's been in and out of the joint for his whole adult life. You hit him over the head with a brick and kill him, it's all caught on security cameras, the trial is short, and your life goes on just fine.

But at the trial, this dude's mom is there, and his friends. You find out he had a kid. Now in your mind he has people who loved him. You're going to randomly be reminded over and over again about these people, and how they must feel.

And maybe later on you're reading an article talking about the school to prison pipeline, the same system your attacker was dragged into as a teenager. Now you're thinking of him as a little boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, and how his whole life was probably this inevitable storm of shit until someone like you killed him.

And then the holidays roll around, and you're thinking about how his kid doesn't have a dad this year. And so on.

Killing someone doesn't end when they die. In your mind, it keeps going forever as things remind you that this person isn't in the world anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, there's a certain biological reaction in any traumatic situation, obviously, but I don't think that's the same as the kind of moral doubt OP is talking about

idk

[(Anonymous)]

That's all fine.

But the narrative in media is ALWAYS that the person is traumatized. ALWAYS. I watch a lot of adventure/cop/whatever shows and I can't think of a single one where they killed a bad guy and didn't feel bad about it.