That is not madness, that is business. The biggest business in the world. Nasty or not, we can't turn our head away from that. Living in a violent world means that you have to be violent to survive.
It's business to train men to kill and not expect that to affect them psychologically?
I must be honest, I'm not sure I follow.
In any case, it is based off some assumptions that we as a culture have held for a long time but are incredibly reluctant to examine closely. Our world is violent because we train people to be violent and those violent people bring violence upon the world.
Doesn't that seem silly? Doesn't it seem like there may be a way to break that cycle?
Unchanged? I'll admit, I won't say that every single soldier has pure intentions, but I'd say the bloodlust has at least grown compared to a few decades ago.
That is like the old generation complaining about the moral decay in youth.
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
-Socrates (469-399 BC)
Naive fantasy with no real connection to how unchanging men's natures really are through generations.
Black Jack said:
There's that psychological talk again. You know that not all humans are inevitably prone to suffering from such a thing. I've always thought it to be bull**** that you can kill someone and have a 'mental disorder' whether you feel guilt for your actions or not. Perhaps it is you, who observes, that has something wrong with your mind - to be able to group every single human who has ever killed, in the same group, regardless of the affects afterwards - if there were any.
Absolutes are for mathematics, not for the real world. If you think that their training and their experiences are not damaging to the goodly human psyche then I would recommend you sit down and talk with veterans of our wars.
Black Jack said:
Stop that.
At least if you're being serious.
Stop what?