[split] Psychology of the Roman soldier

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It has nothing to do with fear, just that combat elicits a biological response in people who have been trained and exposed to years of combat.

Most infantrymen probably knew nothing about the concentration camps, or really the full extent of what had been done until after the war had ended. By calling their actions evil we're demonizing the Germans, instead when we should be more concerned how a sophisticated, modern society could fall to that level of depravity. If the Germans are capable of committing acts like this, then we are as well. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that human nature doesn't have a darkness that can be exploited for political or economic purposes.

The United States has never fought a war for humanitarian reasons. WW2 wasn't fought on humanitarian grounds.

The answer is that Americans across the political spectrum believed they were fighting to defend their inalienable rights, which included the freedom of the seas.

This is why I worry that the nature of warfare is less organic than we think. Both sides are usually convinced think they're fighting for the "right" reasons, and are irreconcilable with one another.