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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Half the point of basic training is to break or subvert the part of the brain that questions authority and objects to doing violence. Psychologically, humans are not designed for killing other humans. Taking a life is difficult for a good fucking reason, and bypassing that instinct is dangerous.

Valid point. I do worry, though, without the training you describe - which I went through - is reverting to pre-ww2 training where soldiers would freeze up in combat instead of reverting to their training (hopefully). At the end of the day, soldiers are trained for combat, and I wouldn’t want to put people into those situations without as realistic a training regime as we can devise; you train as you fight so you don’t have to sacrifice soldiers to gain the proficiency to operate in a combat environment.

Ideally we’d get rid of war.

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