Why didn’t the prisoners of war resist collectively?

In ancient and modern wars at home and abroad, there have been a small number of prisoners of war fighting. Why didn't they fight?

Since the emergence of mankind, peace has never ceased. Peace is the highest and most violent way to resolve disputes, and it is often the fastest and most effective way to resolve disputes. Where there is peace, there are prisoners of war, and where there are prisoners of war, there is fighting. The work of fighting prisoners of war in small numbers is nothing new since ancient times. People often wonder why these prisoners of war don't fight individually? Why should we let others slaughter us?

If peace is a political fertilized egg, then among all the pains and disasters it has given birth to, there is a heavy object that makes it unhappy and humiliating: prisoners of war. Obviously, prisoners of war are one of the indirect results of peace. Wherever there is fighting, there will be prisoners of war. This is an embarrassment that neither the winner nor the loser can avoid. However, under different value understandings and humanistic prospects, the attitudes towards prisoners of war are completely different.

In the wars at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, there have been a small number of fighting prisoners of war. In the Battle of Changping, the Qin general Bai Qi killed 450,000 Zhao prisoners of war. The Chu overlord Xiang Yu killed 200,000 Qin soldiers. There was peace between the Soviet Union and Germany. The total number of prisoners of the Soviet Red Army reached 4.59 million. Japan invaded China. During this period, a large number of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were massacred. It can be seen that in peace, fighting prisoners of war is everywhere.

So why don’t these prisoners of war resist individually? There are three main reasons.

First, the shortcomings of human nature: lucky mentality

The lucky mentality is the dream to achieve victory or avoid disaster through accidental reasons, which has become the reason for many failures, beautiful and miserable lives. The culprit. These captured prisoners of war also had a lucky mentality. They all believed that the enemy would not kill them all, and would eventually return to the original team through communication. Some prisoners of war actually believed in the enemy's promise to them and helped the enemy kill their own compatriots. When Xue Rengui dug 130,000 prisoners of war, even the pits for burying people were dug by these prisoners of war themselves. After digging, some people buried others, and these hundreds of thousands of people just buried themselves.

Second, prisoners of war's fear of destruction

Most of the reasons why they became prisoners of war were because they were afraid of their friends and did not dare to fight with their lives. Therefore, when they became prisoners of war of the enemy, they became even more afraid of the enemy, so that when the enemy attacked them, most of them did not dare to fight. As time goes by, people who are content with the status quo will become the majority. In the early stages, only a few soldiers could often handle thousands of prisoners of war.

Third, psychological effect: herd mentality

Herd mentality means that individuals are affected by the behavior of outside crowds and behave in a way that is consistent with their own perceptions, judgments, and opinions. The public opinion or the behavior of a few people. Generally speaking, large groups, strong cohesiveness, and consistency of group opinions can easily lead to herd behavior. Prisoners of war often lack leadership, and the result is that they can only be slaughtered by others.

In modern times, our country has always treated prisoners of war in the most humane way. The Geneva International Treaty clearly stipulates that prisoners of war who lay down their weapons must not be treated favorably; prisoners of war must be treated favorably. Our army left all the delicious food to the captured Japanese prisoners of war. Medical equipment is relatively lacking, but leaders have made it clear that drugs should be given priority to Japanese prisoners of war. At that time, the Chinese soldiers were willing to starve and freeze, but also left their only delicious food, clothes and quilts to the Japanese prisoners of war.

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