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Have seen a lot of people, in discussing the recent JG revelation, echo this claim that murder is somehow *objectively* less bad as a crime than SA, without really considering how this reads to victims. If you feel that way as a fellow survivor of SA I entirely understand what you mean, but when

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it's just thrown in as a rhetorical technique and not a subjective way of relating the harm you've experienced, it comes across as this implication that you think *I should prefer to be dead right now*, that my current state is somehow worse than that of somebody buried in the ground.

I think this stems from specifically the societal viewpoint, that for everyone who is not the victim it is a lot more convenient to have somebody they can bury and grieve for a few months than to have a broken person that needs a little more emotional effort to deal with for the rest of their life.

Obviously both crimes are abhorrent, there are countless ways for one person to irrevocably harm another, but may let's not try to rank them in some fucked up moral tier list to score internet points without considering the implications you're making about the victims of those crimes