I once spoke with an old man who served in the army when he was younger. I asked him what on earth convinced him to decide to take another man’s life for a job. He told me that before he enlisted, he never thought about the fact that soldiers kill people. It never crossed his mind that becoming a soldier would mean taking lives. He said his experience was completely normal for a military man, most of them think like he did.
I am now convinced that human beings are a nonsapient species.
And the ones who do are often just firing at the enemy position rather than aiming for an individual. In world war 2 it is estimated that 100,000 shots were fired per casualty.
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