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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
but your making large leaps here Flip. The pilot saw weapons, that suddenly in his mind removes the innocence factor. He saw a van and reported collection of bodies and possible collection of weapons.
I agree, that they should be punished if the investigation shows that they thrill killed, but until we see the proper results of that, which hopefully this video will force into the open, its tough for me to make a judgement.
And frankly, I stay current in the Armed Forces Community, and every single person that I know that has been rotated into combat has that same coping mechanism where they try to dehumanize the people that they're trying to kill.
Its similar to fighter pilots who don't refer to shooting down and killing enemy pilots but refer to their enemy as a plane. Or a Naval member who doesn't refer to individuals but to ships.
Its simply how they cope.
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It's how anyone can possibly cope with anything. They find a way to distance themselves from the people that died. For example: what was the final death toll in Haiti's earth quake? 220,000 or something like that? I wouldn't say that people were trying to dehumanize the people of Haiti but... distance themselves from their plight maybe? Otherwise, how do you possibly deal with that?!
If a life is a life is a life and they're all worth the same to everyone... take the grieving and coverage of Michael Jackson's death for example... multiply that by 200,000 and how would the world go on?
So it goes...