Two Israeli female soldiers died by suicide this week, bringing the number of serving Israeli soldiers who have taken their own lives since the start of the year to 16, amid growing concern over rising suicide rates in the military since the war in the Gaza Strip began.
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This should be put into context.
Imagine having a genocidal campaign that is so evil, that the soldiers who lustily signed up for it are unable to tolerate the inhumanity.
That’s actually why the Nazis created the concentration camps. Regular soldiers couldn’t cope with doing the genocide themselves, so they got their sociopaths to run the camps and had them do it.
No, the more interesting part of the data is that even the true believer psychopaths in the SS couldn’t handle more than 3-4 executions before they were psychologically destroyed.
And the original solution was trucks that pumped exhaust in the back. Even then, the screaming and the removal of bodies were problems for the troops.
This is why my solution to the trolley problem is to never flip the switch.
Israel has mandatory military conscription. They throw you in prison if you refuse.
They can choose to leave
Are you sure they can? I’d assume they’d get arrested trying to leave.
They should switch sides or do sabotage instead.
Suicide rates are high in any military personnel.
But the rates are not identical across the different military organizations around the world.
Also, you can check the suicide rate among IDF personnel during any given year, and see that the suicide rate has spiked.
Whelp, that takes care of your minimization attempt.
Do you have data from a military whose purpose wasn’t to enforce the exploitation others?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_military
Okay, so which of those countries that have committed genocide in the past century do you think qualifies?