Drawn from research conducted with the families of child victims of a terrorist attack (on Army Public School) in Pakistan, this paper examines how these victim families make sense of contingencies of loss, suffering, and victimhood in their struggle for equal compensation and benefits of care and compassion. Compensating lives in warfare has not received attention in the discussion on the social life of militarism in anthropology. Monetary compensation and benefits of care have fueled modern military conflicts and effective preparation for them, mobilized civilian populations, and justified civilian deaths as collateral loss. This paper suggests that attention to differential grievability of life and restitution shows how biopolitical modes of inclusion and exclusion define citizenship. If militarization pervades the social life of modern states, a study of the politics of compassion and compensation and of the psychic violence of the pecuniary value of human life shows how victims of war do not remain passive subjects but challenge disparity in values accorded to their lives. Uneven compensation of lives lost in war and the masking of this unevenness in the language of debt and willing sacrifice also reflect an unequal citizenship in life, however, providing a way to demand care and justice and disrupting the monetization of life.

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本文借鉴了对巴基斯坦恐怖袭击（陆军公立学校）儿童受害者家庭进行的研究，探讨了这些受害者家庭在争取平等赔偿和福利的过程中如何理解损失、痛苦和受害者身份的意外情况。关怀和同情心。在人类学关于军国主义社会生活的讨论中，战争中的生命补偿并未受到关注。货币补偿和护理福利助长了现代军事冲突和有效的军事冲突准备，动员了平民，并将平民死亡视为附带损失。本文认为，对生命和归还的不同悲伤性的关注表明包容和排斥的生命政治模式如何定义公民身份。如果军事化渗透到现代国家的社会生活中，那么对同情和补偿政治以及人类生命金钱价值的精神暴力的研究表明，战争受害者不再是被动的主体，而是挑战赋予他们生命的价值观的差异。然而，对战争中生命损失的补偿不均，以及用债务和自愿牺牲的语言掩盖这种不均等，也反映了生活中的不平等公民身份，提供了一种要求关怀和正义的方式，并扰乱了生活的货币化。