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I would think the self-preservation mechanism would be stronger. Threat of physical pain is both physical and psychological. Threat of physical pain to others is merely psychological, and not as hardwired as personal infliction either.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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