> people literally shoot themselves in the head How does that work? I would have understood this if it said people shoot themselves in the head or - if you ins

> people literally shoot themselves in the head How does that work? I would have understood this if it said people shoot themselves in the head or - if you insist - people physically/actually/sometimes/even shoot themselves in the head, it would be people taking up ballistic weapons which they point at their heads and fire away. Literal shooting on the other hand sounds like something Chekov would write about, something about the rifle above the fireplace in chapter 1 which needs to have been used by the next chapter [1]. Maybe I'm taking all the superfluous use of the word literally too literal? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun