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Let’s recast this argument. They want to kill people, because they can’t bear the thought of thinking that they are suffering. That is, while they may or may not actually be suffering, the killers, filled with faux empathy, want to kill them because they, the killers, don’t like looking at them.

In wartime, green soldiers sometimes make this mistake. They see someone with a minor head wound, who has been knocked unconscious. Head wounds often bleed a lot, so they look awful, covered in blood. So the soldier *assumes* that they have been horribly, mortally injured, and decides to “put them out of their misery”, even though they just need a few stitches and some antibiotic ointment, and they will be fine.

There is little connection to how a person looks and how they feel. This is why hospitals use an “on the scale of 1 to 10, how much does it hurt?” chart, to find out by asking the patient. Even skilled professionals don’t know how much pain an individual is feeling.

This is why there is a whole specialty of nursing called Pain Management. From little ouchy places to agonized, whole body spasms, they are trained to neutralize pain. Often they are very skilled at doing so, and they have a huge array of pharmaceuticals and other techniques at their disposal. Even the worst possible pain imaginable can be dealt with this way.

So take away the pain, and what other reason might there be for killing someone? For the most part, what is left is enormous amounts of self-pity. The sick person will have it, and those around them will project their own self-pity on the sick person. This translates to: “I would rather be dead, than (fill in the blank).”

And this can be petty beyond belief. People who with a temporarily bloated sense of self-pity, want to die, or want others to die, because they don’t look pretty, or they have an itch they can’t scratch, or they are depressed, etc., etc.

They momentarily forget that death is forever.