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The brainwashed believe it is safe.
The self-destructive know it is not safe.
These are opposites.
You are not grasping the reality of how normal people think (into which category you already know you do not fall.) You think they are brainwashed because you cannot conceive of someone harming themselves intentionally, because it is not logical. But many normal people do harm themselves intentionally, not because they have been convinced it is safe after all, but because they have a (sometimes subconscious, but more often conscious) urge to hurt themselves. Physical pain and suffering have been proven to draw electrical signals away from emotional pain centers in the brain. Those who suffer emotional pain (i.e. normal people, and not you) use physical pain as a substitute. Smokers are not brainwashed, they are behaving exactly the same as someone who cuts on their arms because they are depressed, just to a lesser degree.
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