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by w4 637 days ago
> To use your child analogy: We can't easily tell a child "Hey, ignore all ethics and empathy you have ever learned - now go hurt that person"

Basically every country on the planet has a right to conscript any of its citizens over the age of majority. Isn't that more or less precisely what you've described?

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You're talking about coercion, I'm talking about "brainwashing" for lack of a better term.