We're all going to die.
It's an unavoidable reality that many people don't like to think about. Yet it will happen, no matter whether we want it to or not. The only thing we have any measure of control over is how and when our lives end. For many, the fact of when really isn't up to us in a real way. Despite this fact, there are those who go into professions that involve making it more likely that you'll die. Things like fire fighting, police work, spying and the army are inherently dangerous professions to get into. Even though the uncertainty of death makes us extremely vulnerable to so many things around us, people decide to make death more likely rather than not. Society tends to view those who take on this burden as worthy of praise, often justifiably so.
What makes someone willing to put themselves in harms way is different for different people? Some do it because they've suffered an injustice in their own lives for which they are seeking to make right. Other times they see injustice in other people's lives and want to deal with that. While still others simply believe in the cause and wish to sign up out of a sense of duty to the people around them. They know that it could very well get them killed, yet they do it anyway. Acknowledging this sacrifice is seen by those they protect and society generally as their duty. Without these people, your own life would be in much higher levels of danger. It's because of the jobs that they do that you come to believe that you are safe. Even when you're not.
The Suicide Squad is in many ways about being willing to die for a cause. Even though characters like Harley Quinn, Blood Sport, Peacemaker and Ratcatcher 2, as played by Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena and Daniela Melchior are not the typical person you might think of as worthy of praise for sacrifice. More often than not they're willing to sacrifice others in pursuit of their own self interest rather than the protection of others. However, when they are drafted into a circumstance where the opportunity comes along for them to do so, they are willing, if reluctantly.
When given the chance to walk away from the situation they find themselves in without dying, they do not walk away. They choose the path which may end up getting them killed. One might even call it a heroic path of sorts. At the very least, the choice they make is the kind where the protection of others is the thing they care about most. Even if it only lasts so long as the current crisis which they had a hand in bringing about. It's part of what makes the story worthy of being told, maybe even praise worthy on some level.
Explore the kind of thinking that leads some people to die for a cause by checking out The Suicide Squad as soon as you can.
Find The Suicide Squad on Hulu and elsewhere via the Warner Brothers site.