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kleinbl00 · 1762 days ago · link · · parent · post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
Having grown up with megadeath, there's a set of mental gymnastics you can perform to keep your psyche limber enough for genocide. You start with some othering and follow it up with a heapin' helpin' of just-following-ordersism. You can also do some patriotism stretches whereby anything you do to increase your prowess on the battlefield is saving the lives of the only people who matter. The Chinese have always been the only people who matter. This is why the Opium Wars still scar their collective psyche: it was the first time in history that The Chosen Ones had their asses handed to them and everyone, from Chiang Kai-shek onwards, has based their foreign policy on the urgent and inevitable correction of the celestial order.