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FreakinDJ

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3. His superiors would say No - You hesitate and your Dead

Reply to warrior1 (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 3, 2013, 11:01 AM

Nov 2013

and we as a society have endorsed that

During the last justified war America entered - WWII. The military actually was honest and admitted to the troops we would suffer casualties. now they have some perverse reason to try and tell them "If you obey your training we will all come back alive"

It isn't at all realistic but it does make them obedient

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