• @1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    115 months ago

    I don’t get this “it could have been worse” mentality. Somebody dies of cancer we don’t say “well at least they weren’t waterboarded and gang raped! Lucky them!”

    • themeatbridge
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      125 months ago

      You don’t understand how a quick death is better than a lifetime of torture and an eventual slow death?

      It’s not like there is a pack of gang-raping waterboarding guys waiting outside the cancer wards waiting to waterboard and gang rape all the cancer survivors. If there were, there might be a few who don’t fight cancer as hard.

      • @1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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        05 months ago

        Meat grinder is not equal to dying peacefully in one’s sleep. A bullet to the head is also quick but we don’t celebrate muggings turned homicide. It’s not that I don’t get the point being made it’s that it’s a weird fucking point to make