>>> Beth Benoit <beth.ben...@gmail.com> 04/08/10 7:29 PM >>>writes: I'll be interested to read the analysis.
----------------- The "analysis" published here is hardly an analysis but rather a justification as explanation of the actions of helicopter snipers. Although there may be a way to understand what is going on in terms of "distance" and attentional blindness, the true analysis has to look at the training, both formal and informal, that went on with these shooters, as well as the social structure that creates this depersonalization of one's moral beliefs. How can someone openly hope (as occurs in the video) for a desperate and dying man to show us a reason to be blown away with further fire? The "psychological" explanations in the Times article go nowhere near that. I don't think these troops grew up a psychopaths, but they are acting as such in their occupations. Do we want this to be the result of our boot camps and on the job training? Are we providing the proper discriminative stimuli to make sure that our trained psychopaths know the difference between their job and their home? We obviously can't teach them to discriminate between cameras and guns. Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1866 or send a blank email to leave-1866-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
