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\\\"Let\\\'s say that someone is put in a situation where their options are killing innocent people, including children, (and possibly being killed themselves on the battlefield) or dying right away.\\\"
Ah the simple world you live in, it is not and never has been that simple. Soldiers in the fire nation are professionals. That\\\'s their job, it\\\'s where they make their livelihood. So for many of them their deaths doesn\\\'t just affect them, it potentially leaves their family destitute or killed as traitors. My kids versus kids I\\\'ve never met? Frighteningly easy choice.
And before the Nuremberg trials, \\\"I was just following orders\\\", was a perfectly fine defence as the idea that a soldier has a duty to resist unjust orders did not exist before then. Not that the Nuremberg trials affected very many common soldiers, people high up in the Nazi government, people directly involved like camp guards, and people in organizations like the SS. Those are who were tried and sentenced. Which totals less that 200 people.
Ah the simple world you live in, it is not and never has been that simple. Soldiers in the fire nation are professionals. That\\\'s their job, it\\\'s where they make their livelihood. So for many of them their deaths doesn\\\'t just affect them, it potentially leaves their family destitute or killed as traitors. My kids versus kids I\\\'ve never met? Frighteningly easy choice.
And before the Nuremberg trials, \\\"I was just following orders\\\", was a perfectly fine defence as the idea that a soldier has a duty to resist unjust orders did not exist before then. Not that the Nuremberg trials affected very many common soldiers, people high up in the Nazi government, people directly involved like camp guards, and people in organizations like the SS. Those are who were tried and sentenced. Which totals less that 200 people.
