From: David Robjant (David.Robjant@irismurdoch.plus.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 11:50:47 BST
Hi MSH, all
MSH:
> This was not an argument against war; just a statement of
> fact about war. What I was hoping to convey is that there is no
> reason to believe that combatants on any side are excluded from
> engaging in psychopathic behavior. When people from one country
> believe that THEIR soldiers are above this, it is a result of being
> TOLD so their entire lives, not from any historical analysis.
There seems to be something right about what you are saying here. You are
right about the dangers of blinding patriotism, I'm sure. But aren't you
overstating it a bit? Isn't there atleast *some* historical analysis to
support the idea that certain armies behave more psychopathically, as a
rule, than others? I guess the Republican Guard wouldn't get good marks for
behaviour, judging from those mass graves.
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