The sentiment that "it's a war - soldiers kill - it's expected" is rubbish. Whatever, happened to "soldiers protect"?
ffs, to kill another human being is completely unnatural. To do that, a normal person, needs to,
turn off.....ignore.....whatever .... their "moral switch/valve/sensor/whatever". You can't expect them to do that when the circumstances require it, and then, just simply turn it back on, when the circumstances "no longer" require it.
OK, maybe some remarkable people can sometimes do that. But to expect all people to be able to do it all of the time, is quite frankly ridiculous, imo. We're talking about human beings here - not **** machines with mechanical switches. I expect all soldiers in theatres of war to have morally impaired judgement.
And they don't just kill, they do other thoroughly unpleasant things such as rape - rape is extraordinarily common in war situations. In fact it's sometimes so widespread, that it's the ones which don't engage in it, who are the exceptions.
War is nasty. Either get used to it or, don't elect warmongers as leaders. There aren't any other fairyland alternatives.
