About killing

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Already published in 1995 dave grossman his book “On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society”, in which he argues, among other things, that today's civil society, especially the media, adapts military techniques that make it easier for soldiers to kill , the murder rate increases enormously, especially among young people.

For a soldier, Grossman's book is definitely a must-read to delve further into "kill and be killed."

For the interested public, but above all for journalists, the book is also worth a look in order to question one's own actions if necessary. And this despite the fact that Grossman is sometimes accused of the fact that his theses are not scientifically proven and that he would present the facts in an undifferentiated and unacceptably generalized way.

I am firmly convinced that killing is not very easy for most of us, and that even sociopaths or psychopaths need a reason to go murdering through our country.

I also assume that such occasions have recently been talked up by some parties and their politicians in order to get percentage points from the electorate in the case of at least one Union party and in the case of the totalitarian parties to throw our democratic system out of joint as a whole .

And this "apocalyptic mood" spread by parts of politics is very happily picked up by the media and constantly transported into the brains of our fellow citizens via all channels.

In the meantime, all political fringes believe that they have to prepare for the final battle, "left" and "right" are increasingly rampaging and rampaging through the streets, and the democratic majority has more and more doubts as to whether we are actually still the majority in our country .

Political or politically motivated murders, which we thought we had overcome after Baader and Meinhof, have meanwhile become "everyday" again.

I think it's really time that we stop the doomsday clock in our heads and start working on solutions again, based on our free democratic basic order.

One can perhaps succumb to a morbid charm in the cinema or at the game consoles, whereby dave grossman however, rather advise against it. But in everyday life, such a thing is more than dangerous for everyone involved.

"The link between killing and war is like the link between sex and relationships."

Dave Grossman, On Killing (2009)

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