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Yes, they are programmed to take offense at the notion that they've been programmed.
If it's true that they've been brainwashed, all the more reason for me to hold them vastly responsible for that single decision to join the military and put themselves under the command of the Pentagon. If the resulting training renders them unable to think for themselves, then the very decision to join is a decision to open themselves to committing war crimes, if so ordered.
I hate to hold young people, many of them economically disadvantaged, to a single decision made at a tender age under stressful circumstances. But the decision to become a dog of war is momentous, and will govern a lifetime. It might as well come with exaggerated accountability.
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