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cognitive dissonance
I have sympathy for the unhappy soldiers and widows this campaign is exploiting. They desperately want their losses to be worth something. It's so very human to keep working at your logic until you find a place you can justify pain like that to yourself.
Unfortunately, the analogy about sending living men into a deathhole of a coal mine to try to retrieve men who've already lost their lives is apt.
I feel for them. But it doesn't make their judgment sound.