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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: get the article about the PSYCHOPATHS out far and wide. Gordon…get the article about the PSYCHOPATHS out far and wide. It explains this so well that there can be no other explanation…for instance in one article (Twilight of the Psychopaths) it says this: Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic killers. The 5% or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing their fellow human beings make the best soldiers. And the 95% who are extremely reluctant to kill make terrible soldiers—unless they are brainwashed with highly sophisticated modern techniques that turn them (temporarily it is hoped) into functional psychopaths. In the book “On Killing”, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has re-written military history to highlight what other histories hide: The fact that military science is less about strategy and technology, than about overcoming the instinctive human reluctance to kill members of our own species. The true “Revolution in Military Affairs” was not Rumsfeld’s move to high-tech in 2001, but Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall’s discovery in the 1940s that only 15-20% of World War II soldiers along the line of fire would use their weapons: “Those (80-85%) who did not fire did not run or hide (in many cases they were willing to risk great danger to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or run messages), but they simply would not fire their weapons at the enemy, even when faced with repeated waves of banzai charges” (Grossman 4). Marshall’s discovery and subsequent research proved that in all previous wars, a tiny minority of soldiers—the 5% who are natural-born psychopaths, and perhaps a few temporarily-insane imitators—did almost all the killing. Normal men just went through the motions and, if at all possible, refused to take the life of an enemy soldier, even if that meant giving up their own. The implication: Wars are ritualized mass murders by psychopaths of non-psychopaths. (This cannot be good for humanity’s genetic endowment!) Marshall’s work brought a Copernican revolution to military science. In the past, everyone believed that the soldier willing to kill for his country was the (heroic) norm, while one who refused to fight was a (cowardly) aberration. The truth, as it turned out, was that the normative soldier hailed from the psychopathic five percent. The sane majority would rather die than fight. The implication, too frightening for even the likes of Marshall and Grossman to fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers’ behavior in battle had been set by psychopaths. That meant that psychopaths were in control of the military as an institution. Worse, it meant that psychopaths were in control of society’s perception of military affairs. Evidently, psychopaths exercised an enormous amount of power in seemingly sane, normal society. (End of excerpt) I will say this, in a SELF DEFENSE situation I am willing to fight as it stands, and if things keep going the way they have been, we may have to go one past that position. I for one am not going to stand up against an Apache helicopter, but I will say this…when push comes to shove, I will find out where the pilot hangs out and cut his/her throat. Reply
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NO one knows what they will do until it happens. You can talk all you want. Being in a dangerous situation like this is a mindfuck. If you cant fight thru that fog, and do it damn quick, you will die, or you will live only because of luck. .
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