Comment by scotty79
2 years ago
> You realize the volunteer soldiers that enter a battle to kill other humans also fall under this scope?
Yes. And I strongly believe there's something wrong with their brains. Not so wrong as with the brains of murderers. But to let someone's words override your innate blocks against killing is some weaknes of the brain, easily exploitable with disastrous consequences for humanity.
It makes wars feasible.
I strongly disagree with you on that one. I can totally see myself volunteering to come to the defense of a country against invaders, I can absolutely not see myself volunteering (or even being conscripted) into helping some country to invade another (or to enlarge their territory).
I'm a conscientious objector against military service which at the time that I did so still carried a prison sentence and even if I ended up not going to prison (through some luck and a sympathetic police officer) I was more than willing to do so rather than to be used as a tool. So that takes care of the second part of that statement, the first has so far not been put to the test (and let's hope it stays that way).
+1
I would never serve for an offensive war, but for example I would have been proud to serve the Allies in WW2.
i think if you take a look at human history, the animal kingdom, etc, you will find that in fact it is you who has something strange going on in your brain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/natural-born...
Humans and other primates are more prone to this deficiency of the brain than other mammals.
But even so, only 2% of humans were killed by other humans. And since many killers usually kill more than one person killers are a miscule minority even in such deficient species as humans. Even with all the cultural pressure that glorifies killing in the "right circumstances".
Given that anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him. Falls on the far end of some spectrum.
> anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him
Consider the native american indian warriors who volunteered to defend their land against the invaders. Or jews in Poland who volunteered to defend against the Germans in WW2.
Does your statement apply to them as well?
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