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KHAN: A Thin Line Separates Suicide From Violence Among Men Today

Sharif Khan
KHAN: A Thin Line Separates Suicide From Violence Among Men Today
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It seems the same dark impulses that are driving an alarming number of men to kill themselves may very well be the same impulses driving many of them to turn on others in hatred and violence.

Just a cursory investigation into some of the many men who have committed or encouraged egregious acts of violence suggests a perilous search for acceptance, some desperate search for meaning among the increasing existential emptiness that has been hollowing out our great country over the last forty years.

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