(April 26, 2012 at 10:23 am)Rhythm Wrote: A prime example. Time and time again soldiers (who have been drilled and trained for explicitly this purpose) fail to perform their duties. They freeze, they refuse to fire, they intentionally miss, and sometimes they go so far as to make it look very much like they are performing their "duty" when in actuality they are doing everything in their power to avoid it.
"It's the hard heart that kills".
It's something that has been called the 'Stormtrooper aim' effect. Dehumanise your opponent and he becomes just another target. Look him in the eye and now it's personal.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
