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Originally Posted by tater
These are guys who are fighting for continued genocide. That IS what they are fighting for, just like the Confederates in the US Civil War were fighting so human beings could be property. Were they all thinking about that when they fought? No, of course not. Doesn't matter, that IS what they fought for, like it or not—heck, even if they didn't know that was what they fought for, it was what they fought for.
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It's not what they fought for. They all had very different reasons to fight. To continue with your civil war analogy, some soldiers may indeed have fought to keep slavery. Others fought to defend their "fatherland" against the north. Others fought to defend their families and beloved ones. Others may have fought simply for the money or the thrill. And many others fought simply because they were conscripted.
You say that fighting for a country would automatically mean fighting for its government. That would be the same as saying that all patriots in the US army are fighting for Obama.
You're saying that German soldiers should have defected/surrendered if they were against the Nazis. That would be the same as saying all US soldiers who are against Obama should defect/surrender.