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Not really sure what point this is making. If you’ve spend years struggling to survive, starving and wasting away in a walled ghetto, and now you’re standing b
by rafram 1y ago
Not really sure what point this is making.
If you’ve spend years struggling to survive, starving and wasting away in a walled ghetto, and now you’re standing by a pit, facing armed soldiers intent on killing you… would you really have the will to run? Would you, weakened by hunger, even feel like you could run? Would you get very far if you tried? Would you want to fight to keep on living if life felt that hopeless?
- MarkPNeyer 1y agoYou make a great point. People had no hope. This is why Hope is an essential survival strategy.
- scott_w 1y agoThis was my thought. It wasn’t really a group of young, strong, healthy men, ready and armed to fight. It was a group of malnourished, exhausted, depressed shells of humans. I wonder if anyone asking why has ever been so hungry that moving is an effort. Have they ever been injured so badly, or fallen so ill, that just lying down and dying feels preferable to taking one more step. Trying to resist under those circumstances would be unthinkable. Quite literally! These systems are setup to instil exactly this behaviour!