RE: Texas Governor declares Feb 2nd Chris Kyle Day
February 4, 2016 at 2:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2016 at 4:46 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 3, 2016 at 11:12 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: How do we know that the military didn't turn him into part of that 2%? A military that needed that mind set to be used as the offensive tool that he became.
It's entirely possible. At the sharp end of the spear, the military doesn't want paper-pushers, and they will do what they can to strip enough people of the murder taboo in order to accomplish the mission. And of course, there are those whose taboo is weaker than others; there are those who are more skilled at rationalizing its violation; there are those who embody Arendt's "banality of evil" by killing with all the aplomb of peeling a potato; and there are those who become part of the 2% because of the trauma that the battlefield inflicts.
No doubt I'm missing some other elements and causes involved.
