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| Thread ID: 108168 | 2010-03-16 21:31:00 | Long Distance Death Dehumanizes | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 867742 | 2010-03-17 07:40:00 | No, there ain't no z's for dead people. Their sleeping has been out-gunned ;) Anyway, you got it even more wrong, you had a zee, when a zed is called for in the alternative (non-ess) spelling) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 867743 | 2010-03-17 07:41:00 | This isn't shocking, even remotely... Since the days of indirect fire... Gunners don't give a toss either. (I don't think I said that right) There is a a lot of research looking into this... There is a lot of scope into killology. Read up Sla Marshall if any of your are interested. (fascinating figures) Realistic and general combat effectiveness for regular infantry is from about the 15th day of combat till the 30th. Before they are usually too scared (subconsciously) to shoot straight and after which they are too emotionally exhausted for fighting or giving a toss. Which is why so many veterans from civil wars, Vietnam and the war on terror get psychological problems - they are into there for far too long. Drone pilots have no risk what so ever, they play video games, for the moment they care maybe, if they were operating from inside Afghanistan or Iraq, they wouldn't. (I know they have drones operating from within Iraq and Afghanistan, but I will bet that the material ain't based on that) |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 867744 | 2010-03-17 07:52:00 | It sounds like the military needs one of two things - either those psychos that have a craving to kill - perhaps if they can be monitored to make the correct kills, they will eventually become disgusted of it, as do the mentally fit operators that are used now... kinda therapy and military application at the same time. or Alternatively, perhaps they need operators that are so disconnected that they don't care about the wider social, family, cultural and national implications of who they kill. Frankly, it sounds like they need the same set of sickos in both cases if they wish to avoid the psychological damage on their operators. If there isn't a psychological price attached to these killings, then you've really got to worry, and start questioning the ethics of war even deeper than we do currently. It is good that soldiers, whether face to face with the enemy, or 10,000 miles away at a computer have a brain and a conscience. Without that, then we would suffer genocide of all but one race/nationality... and frankly, who would want a world full of bland plastic brainless conformists? Oh, yeah, every polititian wants just that. We could be in trouble! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 867745 | 2010-03-17 07:54:00 | Paul, read Sla Marshall, it's very clear in his books how to control make killers and then remove the killer conditioning from them - the world armies used his material to make killers but somehow forgot to use unmake them. | Cato (6936) | ||
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