I don’t mean to be blunt, but I despise it when people on reddit make comments like this.

The ones who make these types of comments have the utter luxury within life in comparison with the absolute hell of those who genuinely were in those scenarios. Feeling those feelings, facing death. Who knows how we’d react. In the comfort of our own safe homes and bedrooms we say we’d react differently, we’d be tough, we would fight back, never dig our own graves etc. If you can say that shit, then a) count yourself highly blessed to realise you’ll never have to experience it and b) get some perspective on human suffering and empathy to understand a lil better instead of beating your own chest. Some of us say we aren’t fearful of death but god knows what it feels like to actually be facing it.

Our innate physical desire to survive would be over encompassing along with dread, terror, fear etc. Sure, some people may react differently but my god if you’re surrounded by armed men who are smiling and laughing because they find your trauma so amusing and casual, whilst you’re forced to strip naked, guns pointed at you – knowing it’s either dig your own grave to have a quick death, or resist and get tortured for christ knows how long – you’d do anything to comply and be done with the horror of it all. Being stripped naked in of itself is highly demoralising and debilitating, dehumanising. Being laughed at. Your impending death is found as funny. Far away from your home, from the people who loved you. Knowing you’ll never see them again, that they’ll likely never know exactly what happened to you. No more sky, air, friends, food, love. All gone. And you’ve no way to stop it.

Hopeless and weak.

You’re telling me you’d be the big man and fight back?