Have you ever played 'flinch'?

[flamingsword]

Why do I read things that make me cry? Because it needs to be done. The standard reaction to horror, fear, or pain is to flinch and look away.
It's one thing to intellectualize the pain of others, and another to experience the immediacy of the fight against despair being waged in other hearts than your own. Suspension of disbelief in fiction is

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[amanuensis1]

Yup, that story broke me too.

[hellocobweb]

I do something similar, only visual instead of read. I think that if the leaders of the world had to dig through a pile of random severed limbs and gore, whilst repeating the mantra, "I helped do this," over and over... The world would certainly be a different place.

Unfortunately, one of the first things we are taught as children is how to shift blame and voiciferously declare our innocence. After a while, we begin to even believe our own internal propaganda.