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Actually, Pacifier, if I'm not mistaken, the percentage of soldiers *not* firing their guns went down because armies the world over changed the standard target from a simple bulls-eye to the shape of a man. Soldiers are thus supposed to take out a *target*, not a fellow human. The training is supposed to change that perception.
Oh, and even with a large percentage of people not shooting at the enemy, the casualty numbers were still terrible in the old days... tens of thousands of deaths in a single battle were quite common, especially in nationalistic Europe. Today that would simply be unheard of.
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