re: #501 Obdicut

I’m sorry, I have to disagree.
Soldiers suffer from PTSD, because their bodies must adapt to severe emotional trauma. They have to do things that are inhumane. In order to do those things, the enemy must become less than human — the soldiers are trained to think this way from day one.
If you are in combat with people who will kill you on site, and you are out of ammo up close and personal, you don’t have time to think of this person as having a cause, or a family. You have to be immediately be willing to smash in his face.
That’s why the army likes 18 year olds - their brains are easily moulded.