A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
True… but armies are deliberately built so that soldiers are trained, conditioned, and drilled to follow orders, especially when they’re carrying weapons that can kill. That culture is completely different from normal civilian psychology.
It’s like asking a group of kids to band together and kill their grandpa. Technically, yes, anything is possible, but that’s not how a normal human brain is wired to behave.
You need a whole institution, a hierarchy, training, pressure, and a command structure to override that basic instinct. Without that, people don’t naturally just organize themselves to commit violence on command.
True… but armies are deliberately built so that soldiers are trained, conditioned, and drilled to follow orders, especially when they’re carrying weapons that can kill. That culture is completely different from normal civilian psychology.
It’s like asking a group of kids to band together and kill their grandpa. Technically, yes, anything is possible, but that’s not how a normal human brain is wired to behave.
You need a whole institution, a hierarchy, training, pressure, and a command structure to override that basic instinct. Without that, people don’t naturally just organize themselves to commit violence on command.