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The Biggest Star Wars Plot Hole, Explained By Science

In regards to the dehumanization aspect of storm-trooper gear, I remember that when I first saw Star Wars as a child, it never occurred to me that storm-troopers were supposed to be humans in armor, even in spite of seeing Luke and Han putting on the gear. To me, stormtroopers were some kind of robot/monster. Even when I was introduced to the idea of there being real *people* inside those things, it did not compute... I could understand that to make the movies, there had to be people wearing costumes pretending to be stormtroopers, but I couldn't believe that in the actual story, they were supposed to be human, too. Even when I got a bit older, the subject was still murky for me, because I had heard that stormtroopers were clones, and it seemed that if clones were stormtroopers, they couldn't be regular people.

These are interesting articles linked from the one above, regarding human reluctance to kill:

Hope on the Battlefield

Hidden Wounds

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Saturday, July 5th, 2008 01:06 pm
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Oh, that's right, about the soldiers... it made me think of boot-camp, and why that seems so appealing to some people, in spite of all the arduousness and lack of freedoms it entails.

When one is a soldier going through basic training, one is paid attention to. One is definitely not ignored. If you do something wrong, you'll get reprimanded. If you do the "right" things, you'll get praised, or at least you'll feel good from knowing you did well enough to not be one of the ones being reprimanded, and you feel good from succeeding in doing the difficult tasks demanded of you. Even when you don't succeed, the drill sergeants and other people in charge seem to believe in you; they believe that you can succeed, and they provide you with the motivation to do so. And you know that even when the sergeants are shouting and yelling at you, they aren't doing it with malice... or at least, that is the way it is made to seem.

And you know that the physical activity will result in your body becoming stronger and fitter. If you believe that you will survive and succeed, anyway.

And you know that it is just a temporary thing... something that will feel like a badge of honor, of distinction afterwards.

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