Totally not in watching the little bastards die a slow painful death while you cut them down with pellet guns as they try to escape what was only moments before a safe and secure home for their family
makes me wonder how shockingly apocalyptic WWI must have been to the soldiers in it with all the new weapons and tactics that were suddenly being used.
still, introducing armored tanks, planes, horrible conditions in trench warfare, huge death tolls, poison gas, submarines, and more into a world with no media/games/etc. to desensitize them and no pretext for that kind of warfare must have been incredible.