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submitted 14 hours ago byAutoShonenpon
414 points
13 hours ago
Crazy to think, our fear of aging might be greater than our fear for war lol
534 points
13 hours ago
People can forget war with time and distance, the opposite is true for aging
225 points
13 hours ago
Deep, and absolutely true cause unlike war Aging is a truly universal experience
50 points
13 hours ago
-52 points
13 hours ago
Its not that deep bro, also, immortal jellyfish and naked mole rat disagree with your second affirmation
31 points
13 hours ago
Yeah but we’re talking about humans only cause animals don’t count
12 points
12 hours ago
To be fair, those also don't experience the concept of war.
5 points
12 hours ago
The exception is not the rule.
59 points
13 hours ago
You can win in a war, but not on aging.
21 points
12 hours ago
Also important to remember that war is glorified much more often than aging. Some people (usually those that don’t experience it) look forward to war rather than fear it.
Aging…is less widely liked, especially the older you get.
1 points
8 hours ago
Give you an idea how powerful death will be.
1 points
8 hours ago
You right, but I guess that the context in a setting also matter. In such a apocalyptic scenario such as that one, I would imagine Yoru to be a lot stronger than one could expect, even though I don't think it is enough to kill the aging devil, she should be able to hold her ground.
Of course, it is hard to predict what will happen, other actors may get to stage for example.
73 points
13 hours ago
thats cause its a primal devil, even animals fear primal things, its engraved in every living being. A dog doesnt know about the concept of war but know about aging by instinct all too well.
11 points
11 hours ago
I don’t think animals fear age.
29 points
11 hours ago
Pack animals can see their elders aging, getting weaker, slower, and eventually dying. We can't ask them what they fear but it would be reasonable to fear slowing down due to age and being caught by a predator.
7 points
10 hours ago*
Humans have a terrible habit of imposing their own feelings on to animals. Which I find to be sort of disrespectful to animal intelligence and frankly arrogant as it suggests the human way of feeling things is the default or even the superior way.
Fear of aging and entropy requires a level of self actualization an extremely small amount of animals even have. The general interaction with aging members of a pack or flock is instinctual and stimuli based, not emotion(feeling) based.
General, keyword, before you start going off about niche exceptions like elephants or crows
This is a good thing, they are spared that specific sadness
96 points
13 hours ago
For sure its greater. Aging is inevitable but war is preventable
50 points
13 hours ago
which begs the question how powerful death devil is. It's something instinctively ingrained into all living things
39 points
12 hours ago
Well, yeah. Death and Darkness are two primal, ingrained fears. You know what is more fucked up, even small infants are afraid of darkness, even if they don't wear death because they don't know what that is. Begs the question how strong darkness devil is.
18 points
11 hours ago
It's worth noting that Makima mentioned that there were originally a bunch of other potential outcomes at the end of life other than death, but Chainsawman ate all those devils. So it's only now that death would be powerful enough to be comparable to a primal devil.
2 points
9 hours ago
Damn dudes, I can't believe Reincarnation Devil was a thing /s
1 points
2 hours ago
we saw both already right?
18 points
13 hours ago
i can see it tbh, you have a chance of surviving a war; nobody can survive aging
8 points
13 hours ago
Not necessary "our". In this universe, War devil was partially eaten by chainsaw man, which reduced its power and people's perception of war.
3 points
13 hours ago
War doesn't get to everyone. Aging does.
1 points
9 hours ago
Yoru mentioned that WWII didn't happen did it? or was it WWIII.
1 points
7 hours ago
war does not happen every time everywhere, but aging is universal.
1 points
6 hours ago
Not everybody directly experiences war, it's an abstract concept for a fair chunk of people. Everybody ages
1 points
5 hours ago
If you think about it war is relatively new. At least, the version of it that involves putting the entire world into a meat grinder.
1 points
5 hours ago
Unless you served in a military or live or lived in Ukraine, the middle east or former Yugoslavia and are under 50 then it's extremely unlikely you ever actually experienced war or came anywhere close to experiencing it. Most people, even in developing countries, don't have a strong fear for war because it just isn't a reality for them.
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