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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My point is, maybe guys like these aren't always turned into killing machines. Maybe guys like these want to kill, have way fewer qualms about killing someone than a normal person would, and are looking for opportunities to do so. Seems to me, the armed forces would be on the lookout for guys like that because, in my opinion, it seems like it would be easier to train someone like this how to be good with a gun than to train someone who is good with a gun how not to care about blowing people's heads off.
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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).
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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