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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I don't think anyone could seriously decide to volunteer for the military, especially for a combat group like the Seals, unless they were at least comfortable with the notion of killing. But the guy who affirmatively wants to kill, or likes killing, I would think would be a shitty soldier (just like the lawyers who never know when to stop arguing are actually pretty crappy lawyers).
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I dunno. The real life version of people is often the bullshit version they convey because they don't want anyone anywhere near what they're actually thinking.
The best example I have is cops. Obviously I'm not talking about all cops. But the people I've known who wanted to be cops were always the ones who got pushed around a lot when they were young or who were fucking lunatics who couldn't wait to use a gun with permission. Granted, my sample size is unsupportably low (maybe 3 people), but if you asked any one of those guys why they became a cop you'd get the first of the following George Stone answers:
http://youtu.be/vz4_fb6-_F0?t=13s
And the really answer would be because they wanted to be able to bust some heads and exert some authority. And we wouldn't have a police force without these guys.
As for your lawyer example, that ain't true. There are plenty of assholes who get their way because they just never stop negotiating. I've seen attorneys give on points just to get the other side to shut the fuck up about it.
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
One guy on the Nightly Show was an Army sniper, apparently with some enormous number of kills. He said he had no regret over the killing -- but he also had a severe alcohol problem after returning from war. His focus was that he was saving his friends and comrades. The movie-version of Kyle was similar, the real version may have been more "and they were bad guys."
I just started reading a book I bought years ago, that is specifically about how the military trains people to be okay with killing. It's interesting, scary. Just one guy's view, of course, but his view isn't that they look for the bloodthirsty types.
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I think for the most part, you absolutely have to train people to be okay with killing, because it's so against human nature. But you can't convince me that they aren't on the look out for the guys who come in and naturally don't seem to have a problem with it.
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