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That’s all true, short to medium-term. Long-term, I think it takes a toll on people. Even when they are of different nationality, look different and evidently t
by rich_sasha 6y ago
That’s all true, short to medium-term. Long-term, I think it takes a toll on people. Even when they are of different nationality, look different and evidently try to kill you. There are plenty of reports about US soldiers having serious doubts as to what they were doing in Vietnam in the first place. It is altogether more so when it is your own people at the sharp end.
You can of course tell law enforcement officers short-term that they are fighting terrorists, criminals and maybe even the devil himself, but I suspect long-term it is much harder.
- Applejinx 6y agoI hope so, but I think it'd be only some of the people. On the one hand there's the reality of what they're doing, and on the other that's a recipe for circular reasoning and making the person more extreme: basically, now that they've murdered a bunch of babies they REALLY have a reason to think even the babies are VC (or Antifa, or what have you)