POLISCI 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Execution By Firing Squad, Chanakya
28 Jun 2015
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We hear things everyday telling us one thing. Because of this, we tend to believe in what we"re told because of authority. Soldiers kill people to protect the country, however the solder does not think about murder. Real question how do you know what you know. Many soldiers do not want to kill. Battle of gettysburg many muskets were full after the battles because the men would purposely misfire to avoid killing someone. Execution style everyone except for one on the firing squad is given a blank, only one person had a loaded bullet. That is how they know who will kill and who won"t. Soldiers are told that if they do not fire their weapon, their buddy will die. This is a tool used to get soldiers to do what they are trained to do. Realists have two ways to: balance of power. Kautilya (300bc) wrote a field manual about politics for his king.
