Originally Posted by
Atmoscheer
fm I appreciate your perspective, but you've overlooked your own hypocrisy. You said at the end that you've been taught that enemy combatants stop being enemies when they stop being combatants, which governs your reaction to the video. But just before that, you said as an NCO, you'd have stopped it because you would have been looped in on the punishments. I'm not saying that's irrational or abnormal (i mean, find me anyone who played football in high school "to win" and not just "to avoid getting yelled at in meetings and practice"), but it is hypocritical, unless you doubt that they training they received was the same as yours.
I respect the opinions and experiences of combat vets because I know I'll never share them, but I also recognize the human shortcomings in recognizing and attributing one's own thoughts and feelings.
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