I should address this though.
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Originally posted by Albed
If you think that ordinary soldiers get to decide whether to fight or not you're badly mistaken.
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There are plenty of examples throughout history of soldiers refusing to fight.
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It does sound a little contradictory but what I mean is commanders don't ask the soldiers if they want to go fight any particular battle. They give them their orders and they either obey or get punished. Those who refuse to fight are making a decision of sorts but not one they are given. Soldiers have always -throughout history- refuse to fight, mutinied, disserted, killed their officers, or even commited suicide rather than fight. But thinking they always fight of their own free will is a bad misconception that I feel a need to correct.
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