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Catfish · 04-28-08, 03:43 AM

Hello,
i have heard the story of hand grenades as an excuse or justification for so much situations - this is probably not the whole truth.
Gunning down wounded japanese in a hospital " ... we thought they had hand grenades under their blankets ...", survivors of destroyed ships, Kamikaze and "normal" japanese pilots, normal soldiers, officers with their Samurai codex of honour, all with hand grenades ?

I take it that in a situation were you may be killed every second, and thus living on a high alert level and adrenaline, together with propaganda constantly dehumanizing the enemy in every sentence and spreading gruesome stories, it will make you kill "just because".

"Would you do it?" Thank god i never was in a situation to have to decide it. When the situation occurs you have no time of thoroughly deciding, and if you are young and foolish, believing propaganda, you probably just do it. But everyone has to live with what one did for the rest of his/her life, even if some may not even waste a thought at it when it's over, for the rest of their life.

This is an interesting as well as a disturbing thread, but i will not bump it again in posting here.

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

04-28-08, 03:43 AM	#9
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,811 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Hello, i have heard the story of hand grenades as an excuse or justification for so much situations - this is probably not the whole truth. Gunning down wounded japanese in a hospital " ... we thought they had hand grenades under their blankets ...", survivors of destroyed ships, Kamikaze and "normal" japanese pilots, normal soldiers, officers with their Samurai codex of honour, all with hand grenades ? I take it that in a situation were you may be killed every second, and thus living on a high alert level and adrenaline, together with propaganda constantly dehumanizing the enemy in every sentence and spreading gruesome stories, it will make you kill "just because". "Would you do it?" Thank god i never was in a situation to have to decide it. When the situation occurs you have no time of thoroughly deciding, and if you are young and foolish, believing propaganda, you probably just do it. But everyone has to live with what one did for the rest of his/her life, even if some may not even waste a thought at it when it's over, for the rest of their life. This is an interesting as well as a disturbing thread, but i will not bump it again in posting here. Thanks and greetings, Catfish