This is actually the most common reaction I get to showing people images of pogroms done by the Ukrainians against Russian speakers in the country, burning unionists in Odessa alive (and laughing at their charred bodies on social media), leaving children tied up in the cold with their pants down, or torturing POWs to death:

1.) I’ve seen gorier.

2.) These things just happen.

helps you realize that we are just animals like every other living thing and subject to nature

:geordi-no: learning about nature and our place in it

:geordi-yes: hyperfixating on destructive power until you become the least bearable person alive