• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Let me guess, you take young men with high testosterone levels and loose moralities, separate them from women, load them up with adrenaline and stimulants, and then release them on civilians during a period of intense chaos and confusion and what do you get?

    Rape. You get rape. As it’s been with literally every army in the history of humanity.

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      7 months ago

      Take the nicest dude and train him for a few years to view the enemy as inhumane and there’s a good chance they’ll view the enemy as subhuman.

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      7 months ago

      One of the most chilling quotes about war that I’ve ever read was from Kurt Vonnegut. (I’m paraphrasing but this was his general quote … I don’t remember if I read it or saw it in a documentary)

      “During the war, there were two types of women. Women that had been raped. And women that were going to be raped”

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        7 months ago

        It’s always worth talking about though because there’s a lot of disinterest and downplaying of it.

        The charities for women raped in wars deal with a lot of problems like operations for incontinence, and women who have had a hole punched through from their rectum into the vagina and have constant infections and fecal matter dribbling out through it, etc etc.

        It’s often extremely violent and can cause permanent physical damage. But because it mainly happens to women and children, it’s sort of hand-waved.