I was browsing some top posts and saw the defiant citizen image of tiananmen square. I then went on a rabbit hole about how truly tragic the event was and I just couldn’t help but think, even if I was part of their military there’s no way I would be ok with gunning down innocent people and literally driving over them in tanks.
I know it’s probably naive to think like that but what makes its “ok” to do for those that aren’t the ones making the decisions?
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Listen to this jocko podcast. He has a couple reviewing books on nazis and the Japanese atrocities.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jocko-podcast/id1070322219?i=1000390326727
Jordan Peterson explains this very well with some of his parallels to Nazis in WW2. You should be able to find something on youtube
The military are used to obeying orders due to the fog of war an individual unit doesn’t always know what is going on around them so they need to trust the person giving the orders. On top of that the military are brainwashed into thinking that the enemy are irredeemably bad so they can’t arrest and detain them because when they get out they will need to be killed later on as they will be a threat , children in this mentality are also a threat since they will grow up to kill you so kill them now.
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