On Killing The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

The book is should be mandatory reading for anyone in law enforcement, the military or the military.

It talks about the real horror of trying to train people to kill.

It'll change your life.

There's a book out there. It's not I don't have any financial interest in this book. What's worse not mine, but it's by uh, Dave Grossman. It's called on killing.

If you've ever read that book on killing, it's about proximity. A lot of it isn't in the different natures and types. It's like artillery guys and mortar guys don't, don't bat an eyelid. But if you're this close, it's slightly different.

On combat is probably, which is his most famous book, is probably best known for his assertion that people can be divided into three groups

On Combat is probably, which is his most famous book, is probably best known for his assertion that people can be divided into three groups: sheep, wolves, and sheep dogs.

And Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, the father of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, gives a fictional dinner table lecture about sheep dogs taken directly from Grossman's writings.

His books are legitimately very popular, they're part of the training for the FBI Academy. They're in like the Marine Corps Commandant's Required Reading List.

Prior preparation is that one variable in the equation that we can control ahead of time. And one of the key things is embracing the responsibility to kill.

Modern training makes you kill without conscious thought. We are making it possible for people to kill without conscious thought.

On combat is probably, which is his most famous book, is probably best known for his assertion that people can be divided into three groups: sheep, wolves, and sheep dogs.

And Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, the father of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, gives a fictional dinner table lecture about sheep dogs taken directly from Grossman's writings.

His books are legitimately very popular, they're part of the training for the FBI Academy. They're in like the Marine Corps Commandant's Required Reading List.

Prior preparation is that one variable in the equation that we can control ahead of time. And one of the key things is embracing the responsibility to kill.

Modern training makes you kill without conscious thought. We are making it possible for people to kill without conscious thought. And thankfully and frankly at the moment of truth, they need to be able to do that.

You know that book on killing? Have you ever heard of that book? Yeah, Dave Grossman. He makes a distinction in that book, and I don't know how well it's held up under experimentation, but he said one of the big predictors of whether someone will have PTSD or not is do they think the kill that they were a part of was justified?

You know that book On Killing? Have you ever heard of that book? Yeah, Dave Grossman.

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There is a really good book called "On Killing," it did a study on World War 1, a lot of US soldiers, they were within shoot and range from the enemy, they had the weapon they couldn't squeeze the trigger and kill somebody because they looked like them so, it's easier to fight somebody who doesn't look like you if we tell you the person who doesn't look like you is less human than you and