waveman comments on The Robbers Cave Experiment - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2007 06:18AM

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Comment author: waveman 05 August 2015 11:59:31PM 0 points [-]

Also worth noting in this context the great difficulty armies have in getting soldiers to actually kill the enemy. A lot of military training is aimed at desensitizing soldiers to the thought of killing the enemy.

In WWI informal truces kept breaking out along the front.