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Igel

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5. That doesn't mean he's into self-euthanasia upon risk of capture.

Reply to thesquanderer (Reply #2)

Fri May 1, 2026, 08:10 PM

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Options: be capable enough to avoid capture, to kill yourself before capture, and then to accede to capture.

IMO, Trump's for winners. Not suicides. And utterly not for 'losers'--and from a strictly honor-based POV, being captured ain't winning. (One could easily argue from other POVs. But most of those disallow suicide.)

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