>>11588741 (pb)

>Consider the shock you experience from seeing this horror the equivalent of men on battlefields seeing their buddy dismembered by shrapnel or worse.

While I think this post contains some wisdom, this line strikes me as horribly misguided in two ways.

First: EVERYONE here INTELLECTUALLY knows that some perverts somewhere sexually abuse young children. Actually seeing pictures of it might make an impact briefly (and the perv just posted as I am writing this… I scrolled up to avoid it)… but if SEEING such pictures traumatizes you then you DON'T THINK ENOUGH. You KNOW people abuse children in EVEN WORSE WAYS. ALL virtue signalling is bad, and this includes virtue signalling about child abuse.

Second: comparing seeing morally repugnant pictures to the trauma of experiencing actual trauma inflicted on personal comrades is ridiculous. This should be obvious to anyone who reflects on it, but we live in a degenerate society where having any negative feelings is experienced as personal trauma. Suck it up, bitches! And yet, while this is true (OBVIOUSLY, I think), I don't mean to excessively valorize physical war. WE EACH HAVE OUR ROLE. Many of the genuine heroes of WW2 showed physical courage, and got results. But when they returned home they failed, and on the whole raised a generation of self-pitying whiners. Give them praise where due, and blame where due. Many failed to grasp that genuine courage was required not simply when physical life was at risk, but also in daily existence.

Don't state your feelz. Show virtue via COURAGE.