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That why a rhetorical tool that personalizes death may work.

Something like “okay, your mother is now dead. And now your wife, and auntie and even your old highschool girlfriend. You watch them all die, bewildered and distraught, but you do nothing until your son dies in front of you, choking on a resporrator, pleading in his eyes until the very end.”

“You can stop the rest of your family dying right now right now, right way. Do you still refuse?”

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FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Let me tell you about my mother.

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- rainwall@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Wrll, you aint gonna win them all, but sokething like the above tends to work well when people talk about how “some people” should die or go somewhere else. Bringing it back from “somebody” to “you and everyone you know” tends to shock that talk out of them.
  
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  - FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh I’m just referencing blade runner.
    
    Your story really reminds me of the Voight-Kampff test.
    
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    rainwall@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Its effectivly an empathy test just like voight-kampff but less obscure, so I see where you’re coming from.
    
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    BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris…
    
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