"Think about it: only a minority would even *imagine for the sake of a poll* that they wouldn't kill unarmed women and children if ordered. Maybe they just assumed they'd be shot if they disobeyed."

Statistics indicated that in WWII 75% of the time, when allied forces were able to fire on enemy forces, they didn't do so.* There is no doubt a disconnect between would do in the imagination and would do in reality, for all of us.





*wish I could find the reference for this, I know the 75% reluctance troubled US military so much they implemented training procedures to counter the instinct in soldiers not to kill.

OK - properly out now....