Can you imagine dying, the end of consciousness on this plane, blipping out of existence in a crowd of thousands, no one caring about you or knowing your name, no one you love there for you, even in spirit as this was the end of a long run of self serving, violent actions.
Actions done for the gratification of self, formerly through sexually satisfying oneself on someone who can’t consent or fight back, by beating on those weaker than you, by filling the void of worthlessness with intoxicants and putting fathers mother children at risk, or stealing for your own gain. No iota within one’s character points to the last neurons that fired before you left this plane were fired for the preservation or at the service of others, but rather to increase social standing or to glorify the self through ego and status.
Just lain out on indifferent concrete, wondering where your help is, but the people trying to provide critical aid were of the ilk that just put the wheels in motion to your expiration. Your last thoughts being an indecipherable, epithet laden ramble or the culturally boosted self satisfaction “I got one in the face”.
Imagine the memory of people like this, starting to fade when the water hose rinses off where they once were, then the photographs used to prove someone’s point, and then nothing. No memory, your worth has run out, you have no legacy. Only remembered by the families wondering what they could have done better, where they went wrong, transcendental failure. The victims left in your wake, children that were raped, women that were beat, the child you forced to shoot you living with that the rest of their life. Outside of that, you were more inconsequential than the dust flicked off with a feather duster. Leaving this plane in such a tragic instant that you were nothing, your memory will be nothing, your legacy is one of only pain, terror, and sadness.
Imagine being that person.
Then imaging praising a person like that. Imagine holding them up as a martyr.
This begs the question, what is worse? Becoming and ending as a monster, or proselytizing one.