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by hutzlibu 2142 days ago
The position is: you are sitting smiling happily and doing nothing, while the nazis come to take your family and you away to the KZ.

(read stories about that actually happened in reality. Basically a form of madness/strategy of the brain to deal with a situation it seems impossible to solve)
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TomMarius 2142 days ago
I don't think this is how people usually think of positive people. This is resignation, not positivity. IMHO a positive person in this situation would believe in their chance of surviving and fight back.
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monadic2 2142 days ago
That seems a sane response to obvious, impending doom, tbh. Panicking doesn't seem like it would help much, either.

In any case that seems like a separate emotion than "happy"... "traumatized" seems more like it.

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