Even if they volunteered totally aware of what they would be doing and what would happen, it's one thing to Know and another thing to Have Experienced.
With the amount of information that's been released in the last few years, it's bonkers that anyone going into this and having done a limited amount of study won't be aware that shooting civilians is part of the job. It's quite unrealisitic to have such an expectation really.
> Even if they volunteered totally aware of what they would be doing and what would happen, it's one thing to Know and another thing to Have Experienced.
True. But if they volunteer aware that they'll be killing innocents. It seems kind of insane that they deserve any level of sympathy regardless of what they experienced.
> But if they volunteer aware that they'll be killing innocents.
We’re talking about 18 year old kids who are absolutely not well-informed and their knowledge about the military will be what the recruiter tells them.
Most seniors exiting high school have approximately no critical thinking ability. They just parrot ideas ingrained into them via their social circles. So unless they came from an anti-military household or anti-military material was popular in their social media, they are absolutely not “aware they’ll be killing innocents”.m
Referring to working a job as "volunteering" is incredibly naive.
