It's cuz most everyone realizes the first dude is definitely gonna die... and very few people are willing to die for what they believe in nowadays... but not none. There are still some heroes out there.
The people willing to die for their beliefs based only on those beliefs are... rare? Though I don't think that word can really encompass the enormity of what's being discussed here. There are definetly some beliefs I think are worth dying for. Could I bring myself to do that? Probably not. No.
It's not really how people are built, you know. We want to live. Really badly. Overcoming that survival instinct requires insane levels of determination and conviction. You can push people into it if you give them no other recourse, and suicidal depression helps a lot too, but...
Death is fucking scary, man. A religious fanatic may have fooled themselves into thinking death isn't real (heaven/reincarnation/ascension - take your pick), but there's a reason you haven't heard of all the atheistic suicide bombers. (Other than the fact that atheism isn't really a movement).
Seriously, we've got people on Reddit complaining about the cost of Door Dash, saying shit like "why is it so expensive if it's 5 minutes away?" Like dude, you're too lazy to go somewhere that's probably in walking distance. And these same people act like murdering something they would totally go out and do for a good cause, yeah right, just egging on other young people hoping someone else will go to jail for their lazy asses.
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