War Psychiatry and Iraq Atrocities: How Killing Becomes a Reflex (V)


	War Psychiatry and Iraq Atrocities: How Killing Becomes a Reflex (V)

Rasmus

8-24-2007 4:10 PM

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usa, war, iraq, troops, atrocities

Rasmus says:

↗Part IV

[...] Have we already arrived at a point in our collective moral development when, "like Eichmann, we … consider evil to be banal and routine?"
[l.c.]

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8-25-2007 2:59 PM

liotropi

how can you not despair?

8-25-2007 5:08 PM

righthand

Do they know?

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