Killing and the existence of resistance : a world of virgins studying sex. Fight or flight, posture or submit ; Nonfirers throughout history ; Why can't Johnny kill? ; The nature and source of resistance -- Killing and combat trauma : the role of killing in psychiatric casualties. The nature of psychiatric casualties : the psychological price of war ; The reign of fear ; The weight of exhaustion ; The mud of guilt and horror ; The wind of hate ; The well of fortitude ; The burden of killing ; The blind men and the elephant -- Killing and physical distance : from a distance, you don't look anything like a friend. Distance : a qualitative distinction in death ; Killing at maximum and long range : never a need for repentance or regret ; Killing at mid- and hand-grenade range : "you can never be sure it was you" ; Killing at close range : "I knew that it was up to me, personally, to kill him" ; Killing at edged-weapons range : an "intimate brutality" ; Killing at hand-to-hand-combat range ; Killing at sexual range : "the primal aggression, the release, and orgasmic discharge" -- An anatomy of killing : all factors considered. The demands of authority : Milgram and the military ; Group absolution : "the individual is not a killer, but the group is" ; Emotional distance : "to me they were less than animals" ; The nature of the victim : relevance and payoff ; Aggressive predisposition of the killer : avengers, conditioning, and the 2 percent who like it ; All factors considered : the mathematics of death -- Killing and atrocities : "no honor here, no virtue". The full spectrum of atrocity ; The dark power of atrocity ; The entrapment of atrocity ; A case study in atrocity ; The greatest trap of all : to live with that which thou hath wrought -- The killing response stages : what does it feel like to kill? The killing response stages ; Applications of the model : murder-suicides, lost elections, and thoughts of insanity -- Killing in Vietnam : what have we done to our soldiers? Desensitization and conditioning in Vietnam : overcoming the resistance to killing ; What have we done to our soldiers? : the rationalization of killing and how it failed in Vietnam ; Post-traumatic stress disorder and the cost of killing in Vietnam ; The limits of human endurance and the lessons of Vietnam -- Killing in America : what are we doing to our children? A virus of violence ; Desensitization and Pavlov's dog at the movies ; B.F. Skinner's rats and operant conditioning at the video arcade ; Social learning and role models in the media ; The resensitization of America.
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