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by SuchAnonMuchWow 755 days ago
It likely comes from the saying similar to this one: "kill a few, you are a murderer. Kill millions, you are a conqueror".

More generally, we tend to view number of causalities in war as a large number, and not as the sum of every tragedies that it represent and that we perceive when fewer people die.