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The reason this is done is mostly to avoid attaching social stigma to the dead person's family, and for the country to give the parents something, because, you
by shenberg 14y ago
The reason this is done is mostly to avoid attaching social stigma to the dead person's family, and for the country to give the parents something, because, you know, their son is dead.
There was a story about a soldier who had deserted, and when MPs found him, he ran away, was hit by a car crossing the street and died. He was considered to have died in the line of duty. You can call that propaganda, or being kind to people who just lost their son.
People here in Israel don't care that much about the global number of dead in the IDF per year as a metric of how bad things are here, and you might see how calling something most people see as kindness granted to grieving people 'propaganda', which is a loaded word, is offensive.
This is, of course, not to say that I think the IDF is right here - I think they're both totally in the wrong and being idiots here at the same time.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>The reason this is done is mostly to avoid attaching social stigma to the dead person's family, and for the country to give the parents something, because, you know, their son is dead. That doesn't mean they can't give aggregate data.
- yoavfr 14y agoThat's exactly what the blogger has requested. He hasn't asked for any personal details.
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- neumann_alfred 14y agoPeople have a right to truth that affects them, even if it makes them unhappy or angry. It is utterly patronizing to lie about the cause of death. Yes it's unfortunate. So? Have you ever lost someone to something stupid? Would you prefer having been lied to? BS. Also, if the IDF cared so much, why not let people who don't want to be in it go? "They found him, he ran away" kinda sounds like they saw him, but didn't move, and he just leaped into traffic. Not having been there I wouldn't know either way, but couldn't you just as well have said "they chased him into traffic"? But that would make it rather obvious that the motivations for not giving out the facts is to save the face of the IDF, not to protect anyone. To me it just adds insult to injury.
- Vitaly 14y agoI think you misunderstood. The family knows the circumstances. Its just that 'committed suicide' isn't published to the public.
- neumann_alfred 14y agoYes, I was kinda rambling more than responding to anything actually related this story.. sorry.