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Are We Really Natural Born Killers?
It may appear entirely natural to kill, but long-time evidence proves otherwise. While aggression is usual to the human species, so are charitable impulses born of self-awareness and identification with The Other. This is why armies from ancient Roman legionnaires to modern-day infantrymen must steadily drill their recruits and continue to condition even plenty of their combat vets in murderous behaviors.
For example, as far back as Roman times it was observed that men had a natural aversion to stabbing, preferring to cut with their swords instead. Stabbing, purposely and forcibly thrusting a blade into an opponent, was often avoided by most novices to war because, we may surmise, folk simply have an almost instinctual need not to inflict fatalities at least not at such close ranges.
After WWII, to cite another instance, studies conducted by the United States military discovered that less than half of all soldiers actually fired their weapons, even when fired on themselves. This is why the primary mission of basic training in the military any military, since time immemorial has been conditioning the psychology of recruits to kill on command.
Indeed, such conditioning masks the killing act, the killing behavior, not as killing but as the obeying of a command; psychologically, one no longer kills as such but only responds to orders by pulling a trigger or pushing a button.
And the more of an interface there is between attacker and victim the easier it is to kill. This makes sense, of course it’s much tougher to kill somebody face-to-face than to kill him remotely thru a videolink. It’s also much more traumatic for the murderer. And so it is that armies target their efforts on securing obedience, for military operations involve teamwork and it’s the one weak link that may break the chain.
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