I just don't understand. People often celebrate the ability and success at blasting dozens or even thousands of lives at a time with anything from armed drones to bomb carriers to the old venerable Fat Boy, yet they are shocked that among so many thousands of Armed Forces people along the decades eventually one turns up that is actually moved by what they are doing.
Is there a logic to that? I am not seeing it.
Logic? No, I don't think there's much "logic," either, but in such matters, humans aren't generally using logic.
For one thing, it's well know that we can react emotionally to the death of one or a few people, because we can learn a bit about them and find a way to connect. We can't connect easily to dozens (and certainly not thousands) and these become just numbers -- and numbers don't elicit that much emotion.
I agree with you, here was a young man who, for whatever reason, was moved -- but one can't forget he was willingly part of the military, and death is one very real potential outcome, for oneself or others, of that kind of career. Thus, we are (or at least I am) left with supposing that he had an emotional connection to one side or the other of the current situation in Israel/Palestine, but I've no confirmation of that.
More likely, though, our shock is the result of the manner of his death: a suicide, and self-immolation. Suicide always seems to speak to great pain, with which we can empathize, and burning to death seems horrifying beyond imagining. Or at least it does to me.
think I may have preferred the one word responses previously given .... "What is there to explain" - you say ? Your position friend.. clarification and dedication to the nation .. do the two options apply or is there a third you would like to tell us about ?
