It is easy to kill a soldier, very contrary to popular belief. Ordinarily you use a soldier to kill another one (but you might as well use any insect OR ANY INSECTICIDE FOR THE SAME PURPOSE). Worse, too often the killer is not even aware he is committing murder. Too often he is following an apparently innocuous order, totally unbeknown to him that the sangfroid with which he was issued the order was hiding malice and motives ulterior and malicious no end. This is exactly how I nearly lost my life today.
Yet to expand farther on the psychology of a soldier without divulging matters of national security I am dangling here a few other elements for the uninitiated. Sometimes a soldier may very well know that what he has been ordered to do is not kosher; yet he will carry out the order still. That may be for several reasons that we are not about to pursue within the limited fringes of this blogging parchment.
In that regard, a soldier and a lawyer, particularly a defence counsel for the accused, are extremely similar. They seem to work on nothing else beyond the orders/instructions of the commander in the case of the soldier. They seem to work on nothing else besides the instructions of the client, in the case of a lawyer defending the accused in our western sense of jurisprudence.
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