[ In Sokolov's experience, people don't really do things like slaughtering school buses. There is, first off, extremely low possible gain; school buses, in general, do not contain targets of high tactical value. They will not speed up the securing of key government and military locations. They are rarely used to transport goods of military import. Moreover, killing children is a very, very fast way to get a lot of people mad at you in a very loud way, usually in a way that other, more important people pay attention to.
If someone has the level of psychotic detachment necessary to kill a lot of children, they usually have the subtlety not to do it in a way that will get everyone to kill them back. If they lack that subtlety, odds are they won't spend long outside of a jail cell.
So, here, Sokolov's first conclusion is: this man is crazy.
His second conclusion is: this man may be full of shit.
His third conclusion is more of a question, really, as to why the hell they aren't just speaking Russian at each other.
In an operation, Sokolov might have taken this moment to shoot this man, and eliminate a quantity that so clearly had the chance of becoming unpredictable in potentially very bad ways. But this is not a mission. So he does not shoot, as he longs to, to make this situation less ridiculous.
Here, he speaks in Russian. ]
There are many reasons to stop you from slaughtering a school bus. Conscience is only one of them.
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If someone has the level of psychotic detachment necessary to kill a lot of children, they usually have the subtlety not to do it in a way that will get everyone to kill them back. If they lack that subtlety, odds are they won't spend long outside of a jail cell.
So, here, Sokolov's first conclusion is: this man is crazy.
His second conclusion is: this man may be full of shit.
His third conclusion is more of a question, really, as to why the hell they aren't just speaking Russian at each other.
In an operation, Sokolov might have taken this moment to shoot this man, and eliminate a quantity that so clearly had the chance of becoming unpredictable in potentially very bad ways. But this is not a mission. So he does not shoot, as he longs to, to make this situation less ridiculous.
Here, he speaks in Russian. ]
There are many reasons to stop you from slaughtering a school bus. Conscience is only one of them.