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The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.

Judith Butler
War, Self, Mourning
Interview with Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.