Maybe, but also celebrating tallies of enemies killed sends a fairly clear message to the kinds of folks on your side who might actually be up for that sort of

Maybe, but also celebrating tallies of enemies killed sends a fairly clear message to the kinds of folks on your side who might actually be up for that sort of thing what the goal might be. Everyone may then be shocked when someone actually goes and does it, but it seems to me like a predictable result of dehumanizing your rivals rather than just what naturally happens when smart people with different values and information disagree with each other.