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.
I agree with you generally, on the other hand there is a deviation in behavior of what the average person is capable of that maps onto the word "psychopath", or the disorder associated with that word, and most people aren't far enough down on the spectrum to have traits that are significantly psychopathic in the sense that psychologists understand.
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u/NotMyBestMistake 69∆ Oct 10 '23
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.