What do you do when you know your captor, or likely captor, intends to kill you? Not maybe, but for sure you know intends to kill you?
This scenario is ongoing in Syria, Iraq, and Libya right now. Though this question has undoubtedly occurred many times before. Take this Holocaust video from Latvia:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ParxL_mmi-Y[/YOUTUBE]
The victims can hold no ambiguity about their impending fate - yet they comply, almost obsequiously. They pass guards with guns; guns they could attempt to grab to kill or harm before being killed. But they don't.
More recently is this: WARNING - GRAPHIC / NSFW
Again, there is no question they are to be massacred. However, in this instance, the captives greatly outnumber their would-be murderers. Why not use the greater numbers to overwhelm on the chance that some might survive?
I appreciate my relative privilege in not actually having been in this situation. Still, I wonder what prevents people from crossing that internal barrier to fight back. If you're going to die, you're going to die. At least die fighting.
This scenario is ongoing in Syria, Iraq, and Libya right now. Though this question has undoubtedly occurred many times before. Take this Holocaust video from Latvia:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ParxL_mmi-Y[/YOUTUBE]
The victims can hold no ambiguity about their impending fate - yet they comply, almost obsequiously. They pass guards with guns; guns they could attempt to grab to kill or harm before being killed. But they don't.
More recently is this: WARNING - GRAPHIC / NSFW
Again, there is no question they are to be massacred. However, in this instance, the captives greatly outnumber their would-be murderers. Why not use the greater numbers to overwhelm on the chance that some might survive?
I appreciate my relative privilege in not actually having been in this situation. Still, I wonder what prevents people from crossing that internal barrier to fight back. If you're going to die, you're going to die. At least die fighting.
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