That's not quite accurate. When the inexperienced enter a battle to the death, they'll often lose their composure and start to rely on instincts- which are generally untrustworthy. Those with sports combat experience will sometimes find that holding back has become a part of their movements- plenty of people who learn to fight in dojos will enter a fight, knock an opponent down and drop their guard because in a match that would be appropriate. Fighting, sparring and killing are only superficially similar because they used comparable skills. To most, killing does not come naturally.
[ He chooses not to make a comment about the whole 'born of the battlefield' thing and how he doesn't fit into that 'most' because of it. It actually disturbs him how little killing disturbs him now, especially as the standards for justifying it seemed to slide lower every day until recently. ]
Anyway, I'll admit to a certain degree of overzealousness occasionally, but not to the degree you describe.
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[ He chooses not to make a comment about the whole 'born of the battlefield' thing and how he doesn't fit into that 'most' because of it. It actually disturbs him how little killing disturbs him now, especially as the standards for justifying it seemed to slide lower every day until recently. ]
Anyway, I'll admit to a certain degree of overzealousness occasionally, but not to the degree you describe.