(February 26, 2022 at 9:43 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(February 26, 2022 at 8:08 am)Jehanne Wrote: I saw The Day After when it premiered on national television while at home; I broke down and openly wept. The next day my chemistry teacher was giddy, describing how "cool" the graphics were, presumably, of human beings being vaporized. I have not seen the movie since.Just remember that the movie that made you openly weep is the bowdlerised version of what nuclear exchange looks like. That’s the version that was considered safe for American TV to show in 1983. If I say that’s why I say the best thing is to die before everyone else, that is 100% why. It’s not me being edgy or melodramatic or pessimistic and it isn’t my depression or antinatalism talking. This is a situation where the living will almost certainly envy the dead before long. The only reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended up coming back is because the bombs that hit them are a Hell of a lot smaller than the ones that came after.
Your reasons are completely reasonable and rational; I respect that.
Hopefully, all of this is unnecessary chatter. I've stopped talking about this at home. I'm really doubtful that we, as a family, could pull any type of escape off anyways. Things would probably be too chaotic.
