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Is the fact that this seems to be a largely 20th/21st century problem one caused by changes in the way people live their lives, poor reporting of cases of post-traumatic stress in the past or inevitable given the massive increase in people put into combast situations?
'The Trouble With Killing', a brilliant TV show that I've mentioned in other comversations on here, argues that the problem is, despite what you might think about our evolutionary history, killing is a deeply abnormal thing for a human being to do, the development of weapons is to develop something bad that we can invest with the value of killing, so it's 'not us'.
The obvious answer would seem to me to be an equal or possibly greater time to the time people got trained to be soldiers be spent before returning them to civilian life, especially if they've seen combat, on therapy and deprogramming them from military thinking. As this doesn't actually help in the blowing up of other people I doubt our political leaders would be that interested, despite the figures that ex-servicemen tend to be more likely than most to end up on the streets, battling various compulsive addictions or taking up posts on top of buildings and shotting at passers by. |
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