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** Also remember that in our world most civilized countries have a tradition of destroying some weak country once in a while. Evil dictator that killed a thousand man is apparently a good reason to bomb country into dust, destroy it's economy causing countless deaths from hunger and illness and then people coming to power aren't usually much better. Than try to think about this slaughter in the name of abstract idea like democracy and personal freedom (which exists only in ideal world and is only partly implemented even in most developed countries) and compare it to slaughter in the name of any other reason.

* No matter what you do, you will eventually end up not existing. The same is true of everybody else, too.

* A popular attraction in the nineteenth century were freak shows and "[[wikipedia:Human zoos|human zoos]]", which were displays of non-white people in cages living like animals. Obviously, they were incredibly racist, but the [[Fridge Horror]] comes in when you realize that nobody, not even the most educated and liberal of people who were in any position to do anything about it (read: whites) saw anything wrong with the idea! Before [[World War II]], pretty much every Western nation was as racist as [[Nazi Germany]]!

** Nineteenth century? Try TWENTIETH century. Try MID-twentieth century. Its not too difficult to do an image search and find several photos of entire communities, smiling (white) men, women and children happily having their pictures taken next to the hanging corpses of innocent lynched and murdered African Americans.

* Casey Anthony's diary entry found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Anthony that page(scroll down a little) is the epitome of this trope. Dated June 21, it sounds like it could be any melodramatic teenage girl's diary entry, until you realize that little Caylee Anthony, her two year old daughter, was supposed to have died June 16.

* Today could be the day you die. Or somebody you love does.

* Think about how often your parents had sex. No, really. Okay, think about how much sperm a man shoots out with each orgasm. Only ''one'' of those can reach an egg and become a fetus. ''You were'' '''''this''''' ''close to not ever existing, you had potentially millions of other siblings who never got to exist.''

* You know that [[Marital Rape License]] trope? Given how recently values have changed against that trope, YOU could easily have an ancestor who was conceived under these circumstances. It gets worse when you get into the [[Old Man Marrying a Child]] trope. A young girl is able to reproduce pretty early and men are able to keep reproducing for a long time, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-476980/Worlds-oldest-father-21st-child-90.html even up to the age of 90]. And one of your ancestors could have been conceived this way.

* When you were a child, one of the adult people you liked the most might have been a ''pedophile''. And worse, that may have been the reason why (s)he was so nice all the time and always liked being around you.

* That [[Paranoia Fuel|strange noise]] you heard last night when you were awake briefly before falling asleep again? May be totally insignificant. Or the desperate cry for help of a person who was dying a [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] at that moment, possibly to the hands of somebody else. Now the victim's corpse has [[Never Found the Body|vanished without a trace]], and you were the only witness of his/her grisly fate.

 

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