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Originally Posted by aneeshadc
Yes it is human to feel all that u mentioned above, but when we face such situations, there arent people dying or in danger of dying in our close vicinity!
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The German soldiers in WW2 are another good example. They wanted Germany to be strong again and to be able to throw off the extremely unfair terms of the Versailles treaty... they wanted to keep their country safe and regain what it had lost. Their intentions were in some ways very good... they even had a doctrine of not getting involved in politics.
In their guts, maybe Hitler gave them that wrong feeling, but clearly things were going great, they'd reoccupied the Rhineland, etc etc, things were looking good... later down the line, when things were bad, they were completely shocked at horrible decisions Hitler was making .(Stalingrad etc) By then it was too late. Only then did they see that the military should have stepped in and stopped Hitler back when he was just part of a brownshirt militia.
There you go, tens of millions of people dying, emotional decisions very close to the heart, same human drama.
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Originally Posted by aneeshadc
Or are u saying it is alright for us to put our own pain above those of others lives.
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[a decision to overcome] Pain wasn't the the determining factor in Ranka singing. Her emotions are what affect the Varja during her singing. When Ranka is in a negative emotional state, it is VERY BAD for her to sing. It makes them react negatively, so she shouldn't sing. When Ranka says she doesn't FEEL like singing, you had better GET WITH THE PROGRAM, unless you like having your city blown up around you, watching your friends get eviscerated, etc etc...