• thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    if you save the child people will discredit your story. it’s not a story of a child dying if the child doesn’t die. you can’t capture what is happening if you stop it from happening.

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      2 months ago

      ‘This child would have died if I didn’t stop it, and there are many other children I was unable to save’ seems like a perfectly good story to me.

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        2 months ago

        and you are more reasonable than many. many others would deny that people are dying if you can’t show them people that have died.