Mike (Veteran)
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Well, I felt like a part of me died when I went through this 72-hour trip.
And I did that to perhaps dozens, perhaps more people.
So I was able to provide what I was able to experience.
So I see death as a liberation.
So I have no qualms over the death I delivered to these people.
And in some form or another, I'd like to deliver that again.
Of course.
No shame, no guilt, no mercy, no hesitation.
These were the things that were my problems.
Yes, yes.
We hang up on certain moments we think define us, but in some ways they do, but they don't have to.
A friend of mine...
Undoubtedly would help them.
I think incorporating this into the prison system, the military system, the school system perhaps, would create a radical shift that I think at this point in our culture with the way things are going would help everything.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And the guilt and the shame, it's what anchored me to the addiction.