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I have had something terrible happen to two of my daughters.

My sister was raped by a man who forced himself into her apartment and he attempted to kill her. She doesn't support the death penalty, either.

Do you realize that often the trauma of losing loved ones to violence has the opposite affect that most people who are only imagining it expect it to?

Sometimes, yes, people experience anger and want to exact revenge. While sometimes people feel even more keenly what it means to take a life and reject the idea of more death as being justice.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce