You become hard when you carry out such orders.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker states that carrying out such orders makes a person emotionally hard.
- In plain terms
- Doing these orders makes you hard inside.
- What can you take from it?
- Repeated exposure to violence desensitizes individuals.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does violence change us?
- Is hardening necessary to survive?
Another view
Hardening may protect the self but damages humanity.
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