maybe I am sympathetic to a fault, but it strikes me as like...kind of coldhearted to talk of discouraging someone's suicide purely for the utility their continued existence serves to propaganda.
A part of me can understand (although I doubt ever fully) the hatred for this man who left devastation in his wake.
How many lives did he destroy and now he has the gall to feel guilty about it!?
When he can just walk away back to the US while those people were left to pick up what was left of their lives and country!
but at the same time when I just hear about this broken shell of a human being the only emotion I can really muster is a deep and utter sadness.
I feel extremely conflicted emotions about him myself. The guy was genuinely helpful to me as a kid. When I told him he was a racist piece of shit, he listened and changed his words, like he genuinely cared what I said. He said some homophobic shit during one of our talks, I told him to stop, and he stopped. No questions asked, never did it again. I do genuinely feel that if he wasn't propagandized, felt like his country was 'right' and 'correct' after WW2 and its propaganda, if there was less systemic racism, he would have been a genuinely good guy.
But he wasn't, and turned out to be a monster. Its very disconcerting and horrifying to know this is how the world can work, especially learning that as a kid. But the only way to respond to this sort of thing is to side with the victims, of which he has many.