Blog four- slowly dying

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is an awful saying, to be blunt. Being forced to kill another human being will not make you stronger, but more numb and apathetic. Which I think we all can agree are not good things. Ishmael's friend Saidu talks about dying slowly every time he kills someone else, this is not building him up but tearing him down. Every time he has to kill someone, he becomes less and less fazeed by it and he loses his human connection. What makes us alive and human is our human connection to each other and our emotions. when you lose a part of that you become less human, and, in theory, dead. The feelings Saidu is having are completely natural and come with this sort of horrific event. Some things, yes, can make you stronger, like standing up to a bully. But nothing on this scale could ever benefit the "participant".