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How can Americans view their soldiers' deaths as tragic events, despite the U.S. initiating wars and killing other countries' civilians without justification? (piefed.world)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1282913/how-can-americans-view-their-soldiers-deaths-as-tragic-events-despite-the-u-s-initiating

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

Because Americans live inside a special reality where they are never wrong, so if someone kills one of American who was trying to kill them. The soldier is a martyr and the person who killed in self defense is a murderer.

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