Why would anyone deliberately cut into another living human being, much less submit to it? Yet even without anesthetic suprapubic lithotomy was undertaken. Or why would anyone commit self harm? If society expects it and indeed celebrates it a person may see no other way forward except in death.
Now, your characters who believe in the spirits do not just do these things with no proof. They have the evidence of their own experiences. How often, without the external check of knowing your senses and memories can be wrong, would you yourself remember something that was untrue? For the person who believes they have had the experience, they have felt the spirits, they have even seen it happen.
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Date: 8 Mar 2013 05:41 am (UTC)Now, your characters who believe in the spirits do not just do these things with no proof. They have the evidence of their own experiences. How often, without the external check of knowing your senses and memories can be wrong, would you yourself remember something that was untrue? For the person who believes they have had the experience, they have felt the spirits, they have even seen it happen.