This post has content warnings for: suicide, ethics, geopolitics, bombing.
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in reply to @rotsharp's post:
JSYK, the first time I read this it ended "...local scale" on my screen and my response was a "WTF since when does Talen approve of suicide-bombing" and it took several days to realize that wasn't the whole post.
Not the fault of either of you, obviously.
thanks for this. I'm struck by how closely your description matches my own struggles with this type of thinking, although for me the endpoint 'hatred of life' was aimed directly at my own forehead and fully internalized.
sure i could take action with comrades and try to change things for the better, but good works will never be enough to outweigh whatever sins i've accumulated as a result of my continued insistence that i stay living - wouldn't it be better to find something to die for?
I guess it's the same sort of imperial arrogance to think the best one can do to help others is remove oneself from the world.
fuck that, thanks for writing this
thank you for reading, kind stranger 
the only good lesson i have learned through suffering is that loving life requires you love your own life (liking optional)