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I think they have had to discover how traumatic it is to be murdered and then resurrected with that memory. They obviously didn’t understand that because, before this war, they didn’t have to deal with dying by murder. I find it hard to believe that they didn’t understand how traumatic resurrection was, if it is indeed inherently traumatic and that trauma has nothing to do with the circumstances surrounding the death. My personal understanding is that dying painfully or in an emotionally negative situation leads to pain and psychological trauma upon resurrection. The Six’s problems seem to indicate that. However, that proves my point, which is that it is the circumstances of the death (circumstances they’ve never had to experience before, which are new to them now that they are dying by violence) that make resurrection more painful, something they are just learning. They apparently never have to go through that again, but it does give them newfound empathy with humans that they lacked when their deaths were relatively meaningless and by choice.
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I guess I don’t see how a death as a result of murder would be any more or less traumatic than another kind of violent or painful death. There’s lots of equally meaningless and unpleasant deaths the meatbags could have suffered before they launched the war and started getting murdered by humans.
(“We were being reassigned to a new location, and the heavy raider being used to transport us had a total power failure, so we ended up drifting in space, unable to call for help, dying a long, slow, agonizing death from suffocation. Yeah, that definitely sucked. Don’t want to do that again.”)
The show hasn’t really made clear where the trauma is; if there’s some existential reason “love” is necessary for making babies, then maybe there’s a similar emotional thing about getting murdered, as opposed to just, y’know, dying accidentally, slipping on a staircase or whatever.
Maybe dying because you put a knife in a toaster is different if you’re a toaster who gets a knife put in you. 
Thing is, the show hasn’t really made that suggestion, and hasn’t asked us as viewers to accept that there’s a distinction between kinds of deaths beyond their physical circumstances. If that happens, fine, but until then, I have to be skeptical. If there’s anything to the Cylon realization about the trauma of death, it seems to me that it’s simply a matter of its frequency: that the sort of accidental scenario I mentioned above simply doesn’t happen very often, that disease isn’t common, and that old age isn’t really a factor yet.
