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qweerhet · 1 year ago

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i think people heavily involved with leftist ~discourse~ could stand to take a step back from questions of morality and recognize:

when you brutally torture people for their entire lives, they will eventually react with extreme and brutal violence.

it's not a question of whether that reaction is moral or not. it's certainly not a question of if they will react like this; the only question is when.

it's pointless to try to ascribe moral value to the actions of torture victims while they are being tortured. if someone is starved, beaten, denied medical care, denied humanity their entire lives... they will (at the very least try to) lash out with brutal and horrific violence at some point. this is how our bodyminds respond to torture. this is how the endless trauma of being subjected to such conditions manifests itself. morality doesn't factor in.

#yes this is in response to horrible the shit i'm seeing about the gaza strip and palestine rn #but i worded it very broadly on purpose because like #the way people are discussing palestine and palestinians right now reminds me very very much #of the same harmful and shitty framework we have when discussing resistance to violent colonial oppression in general #and additionally to the actions of victims of interpersonal torture (child abuse victims who killed their parents for example)#i see this all the time and it's... mm. i don't have the brainpower to elaborate more actually #i hope you get what i'm pointing at anyway

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