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2005-02-09 Home Front: WoT

Sheep, Sheepdogs, and Wolves...which one are you?

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Posted by FWTB-DLTR 2005-02-09 1:52:29 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I tend to think of them as rabbits (prey whose only defense is to run, hide and hope for the best), porcupines (well defended but don't attack), mamma bears(claws, teeth and will rarely attack unless provoked), outright predators and pilot fish.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-09 4:00:11 PM|| 2005-02-09 4:00:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ima still like teem americas descripshen the threee diffrent kindsa peples

Posted by muck4doo 2005-02-09 4:34:43 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-02-09 4:34:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Grossman wrote a book called On Killing a while back. According to him, the most stressful part of battle for a soldier is not being shot at but killing, but with a catch, the closer you are to your target the harder and more stressful it is to kill. (I personally think getting shot would be the most stressful part of battle.)Conversely, killing from an out-of-the-line-of-sight distance actually becomes easy. Being shot at invokes more surprise and disbelief than stress. According to him, killing other human beings requires overcoming years of societal indoctrination. Thus all the drills and the more realistic the better. Without the drills, he claims people will routinely refuse to kill or miss on purpose. We are not Natural Born Killers according to him.

Posted by Zpaz 2005-02-09 4:57:16 PM|| 2005-02-09 4:57:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...killing other human beings requires overcoming years of societal indoctrination.

For some people (sheep) it does. Not all (Wolves and born Sheepdogs), though.

Posted by Parabellum 2005-02-09 5:33:25 PM|| 2005-02-09 5:33:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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