loads of people didn’t though and they didn’t not because they didn’t understand that being killed was bad but because they didn’t accept that armed men could tell them not to practice their religion
Exactly. And in addition… A person might easily say “yeah, I’d lie about my beliefs to save my hide!” But when the opposition forces it to be a matter of your very being and culture, when they force it to be a rejection of all the traditions you associate with your family, your very culture… It becomes a lot more understandable to be willing to die in defense of it.
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