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Zareth posted...

I dunno, there's therapy and such for the sexually abused, you can't exactly get help for being murdered

The phrase "a fate worse than death" exists for a reason.

It's obviously going to be a subjective case-by-case scenario, depending on just how bad the abuse was and how much psychological damage it does, how difficult it is for the victim to cope with it or overcome it (if they ever do), and so on. But for some people the abuse will literally ruin the rest of their life - and may lead to suicide or a slower form of self-destruction anyway.

The phrase "better off dead" also exists for a reason.



Vampire_Chicken posted...

I was married for several years to a survivor of child sexual abuse. Neither of us felt it would have been better if she'd been murdered as a child.

It's not up to either of you to unilaterally make that decision for every other abuse survivor in the history of the human race though.

Keep in mind that I said that there's an argument to be made to see things that way. I never said that everyone does, or everyone should. But there are absolutely people who do. And both sides of the discussion have their own merits.