On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

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

Dave Grossman

367 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative slow-paced
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The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, ...

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