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A human brain is not designed to be exposed to this much misery and bloodshed every single day.
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The sentence says that seeing misery and bloodshed day after day places an unnatural burden on people. “Every single day” emphasizes the relentless repetition, suggesting that human beings have limits to how much suffering they can take in at once.
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