@gaggedmedia_refugee @MissConstrue I'm sorry you feel that hatred. As cynical as I am about the future of the world as we know it, I think we are more than killers, though that is certainly a part of us and many other animals. He was not a killer in his heart but a healer, and he went on to contribute to the beginnings of one of the most important and overlooked fields of medicine. He was a gay man who spent the end of his life after his lavender wife who he was utterly devoted to as a friend died with a "roommate" and a daylily garden, which he'd spent his life making broadcasts about on ham radio.
He did not love war, and not everyone who is sent to one, even willingly, acts out of hate when there is a greater hate they are compelled by the anger coming out of their love to destroy. I know that's not the nature of any of the wars waged by superpowers today, but there are people in the world who are fighting to expel those superpowers from their land who can't just be reduced to monsters still.
You don't need to apologize to me. I hope you find some peace about it, because God knows we need that. I think that whoever survives this next gauntlet that is fast approaching might finally have seen enough to pass down all the right lessons in time. I just know I'm not gonna add to the grief we are already feeling, but also, I don't lie that it's going to get really ugly everywhere else really soon. The world is complicit in genocides, and the reciprocal price of that is coming.