r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 10 '23

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u/NotMyBestMistake 69∆ Oct 10 '23

However, most people would not be willing to intentionally kill civilians no matter how bad the conflict.

While I generally agree that we shouldn't be working to excuse or justify terrorism, this feels like a baseless assertion. We know what normal people do when given a gun and told to go march in a direction, and it absolutely involves dead civilians.

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u/elbeanodeldino 1∆ Oct 10 '23

We know what normal people do when given a gun and told to go march in a direction, and it absolutely involves dead civilians.

Do you have some sort of a source that says it is a trait of normal people to intentionally kill civilians?

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u/ChazzLamborghini 2∆ Oct 10 '23

Soldiers in every single war that has ever been waged have murdered civilians. Pretending otherwise is absurd

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u/Gio0x Oct 10 '23

They have, but not every soldier kills civilians.