You shoot them, and deal with the realities of that choice later.
The realities, I must be clear, are that someone very evil put those children in a situation which they could not be prepared to make themselves. Becoming a warfighter is making the conscious choice to place yourself in a position to kill other warfighters. A child can’t make that choice. As I have said before, child soldiers are next to worthless. They don’t know what it means and can’t fathom the risks. So when a child is artificially made lethal enough to become a threat to a real warfighter means that someone has violated that child’s very humanity on the grossest scale imaginable. You harbor the hatred you feel for yourself for killing a child who didn’t know any better and then remember that you didn’t kill that kid. The bastard who handed him a grenade and told him to go to the medical tent murdered that kid. You just did what was necessary to save other lives, or maybe even your own.
Once you realize this, you’re left with only the very real conclusion that there is a profound reason why people are called to be real warfighters; to find that person, to hunt him down, to find out everything he knows and who his friends are, and kill them all, so that they never have a chance to hurt any more children through their influence like that again.
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