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self-destructive
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self-de·struc·tive (slfd-strktv)
adj.
1. Tending to do harm to oneself.
2. Marked by an impulse or tendency to harm or kill oneself.

self-de·structive·ly adv.
self-de·structive·ness n.
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Adj.1.self-destructive - dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot"
dangerous, unsafe - involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
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self-destructive [ˌselfdɪsˈtrʌktɪv] ADJautodestructivo


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And when put to the test, they react like all of us: sometimes like heroes, other times self-destructively.
We later learn also that Leonard was reacting self-destructively to a wrenching breakup with a longtime girlfriend.
Thus we are brought to the bottom line of a future design of refuse and refusal that, along lines Walter Benjamin already forecasts as the whether or not of aura, breaks or recycles through the past we can no longer warm up to but with which we self-destructively seek to re-fuse.
 
 
 
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