On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Dave Grossman
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages416 pages
ISBN
9780316040938
Published
2009
Description
The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates The Army'...The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates The Army's conditioning techniques, and, according to lt. Dave Grossman's thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young.
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