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Sadly you can't reduce someone to "collateral damage" unless you dehumanize them to the point of seeing them as literal meat shields and not people.
And as CountScrofula pointed out that dehumanization is the only way you can hold the cognitive dissonance that using human shields is immoral but executing one is a noble sacrifice.
And as CountScrofula pointed out that dehumanization is the only way you can hold the cognitive dissonance that using human shields is immoral but executing one is a noble sacrifice.