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> Each time they would laugh afterwards, like they were just playing around, or like it was a big party or something. Terrorists in TV and movies are never lik
by ranprieur 8y ago
> Each time they would laugh afterwards, like they were just playing around, or like it was a big party or something.
Terrorists in TV and movies are never like this. They're always super-serious evil, like Voldemort, like nobody ever is in real life. I wonder how much violence could be prevented if Hollywood didn't give us such a bullshit view of human nature.
- jackgavigan 8y agoThey may have been high. The Taliban is known to have given suicide bombers drugs before sending them to their deaths.
- Sammi 8y agoThey were probably just pleased and proud of themselves because they believe they are fighting on the good side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
- woolvalley 8y agoIt seems pretty evil to me if you laugh about murdering humans like it's some sort of game.
- StavrosK 8y agoIsn't that what all soldiers do?
- muzika 8y agoNo
- StavrosK 8y agoI guess the Taliban are somehow different from everyone else and evil, then. It's the most reasonable explanation.
- watwut 8y agoSurely there is middle ground between "all soldiers do it" and "no soldier except Talian ever done it". While no army is composed of highly emphatic saints, armies differ in their general level of violence toward non-combatants, cruelty, how pleasurable they perceive killing and so on and so forth. Ideology and reward system have to do a lot with how army or specific unit behaves.
- StavrosK 8y agoSure, I just don't really subscribe to the notion that "they're brown so they must be evil". The data I have right now is "these soldiers were taking killing lightly" and, if I'm going to generalize from the data point, I'll generalize to "all soldiers take killing lightly" rather than "the Taliban specifically take killing lightly", since that makes an additional assumption that the Taliban are special.
- watwut 8y agoBoth nazi and communists took killing lightly or as manly honorable duty. They were German and Russians respectively. They believed they are doing right thing with no ambiguity. They had fun with it. They were more violent as western armies toward non combatants. The original claim was about this particular unit. Assumption that they are representative of all brown people is wrong. Plenty of brown don't subscribe to this ideology. Armies indoctrinate and socialize people differently. Implying racism on part of people who don't extrapolate one unit of one army behavior to all of them is not great tactic.
- Nition 8y agoNot to excuse them obviously but I wonder if it could have been a nervous laugh. Later in the article even the author had to cover his mouth in case he laughed during the ordeal. I know I tend to laugh myself when something really stressful happens, it's an awkward habit.