Comment on Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's "afraid of you"

• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Victims of torture confessing to crimes they didn’t do because they are afraid of more torture. They want to appease the torturer, who they are afraid of, by telling them whatever they think will make them stop.

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  • legolas@fedit.pl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What exactly can victim of torture “want that the person who they are afraid of want them to want.”? They can say something that the torturer wants them to say, sure. But wanting something? Like what?

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      they often pretend to want the thing that the person who they are afraid of

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