> it's mostly guided by wishful thinking to fool yourself into believing that all this penance leads to some kind of salvation. Something similar leads to russ

> it's mostly guided by wishful thinking to fool yourself into believing that all this penance leads to some kind of salvation. Something similar leads to russian people to support Putin. They know that they are wrong, but the thought that they are wrong and all the suffering was for nothing is too terrifying for their subconcience to even ankowledge.