the brutality of it. children getting fucking burned alive. soldiers getting their legs blown off. the screams. the fire. it just makes one laugh. you see that shit, nothing stops you from going insane. nothing. you're insane. you either kill yourself or laugh about it. maybe both. you need to cope somehow. you're already insane. i knew a girl whose dad was a firefighter and at thanksgiving he was with his friends and they would joke about some mangled pet they had to take out of a collapsed house or some poor bloke who got flattened on the highway and they had to scrape him off with shovels. you just have to joke about it or you'll go crazy. you're already insane, but the trick is to not go crazy.
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