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Sorrrrrrryyyyyyyy ....
SORRRRRRRYYYYYYYY - it's is nice to think that you can take the human psyche and wrap it in paper and tie it with a pretty ribbon and every answer is contained within it's interior. Just ain't so ... even the civilian world has many permutations that just don't fit the mold.
When you step onto the battlefield, you are stepping into a whole new world that bears little or no resemblance to the halls of academia. The little boxes and restrictions that are contained in the research papers (along with their results), just don't fit into the puzzle that is combat.
The pressures that affect the combat soldier range from the absolute pits of depression ... to the absolute high that is spurred on by fear. How any one can possibly say how a person will act under every possible combination is beyond me.
The human mind can NOT grasp the number of possible combinations, so there is absolutely NO WAY that any expert can tell how an individual is going to react in combat.
I also have NO confidence in academia ... they live in their little ivory towers and have NO grasp of the real world. They believe that these theories that they have formulated are the be-all and the end-all and one size fits everyone.Ollie Garchy said:I have no faith in the ability of academics in this case. How can they possibly determine who will snap and who will not? Sure, they can give us mountains of "data" and countless studies. But, I am not convinced that they have even scratched the surface. The battlefield remains a tough environment to study. The human mind is even more difficult. The two together are just daunting.
SORRRRRRRYYYYYYYY - it's is nice to think that you can take the human psyche and wrap it in paper and tie it with a pretty ribbon and every answer is contained within it's interior. Just ain't so ... even the civilian world has many permutations that just don't fit the mold.
When you step onto the battlefield, you are stepping into a whole new world that bears little or no resemblance to the halls of academia. The little boxes and restrictions that are contained in the research papers (along with their results), just don't fit into the puzzle that is combat.
The pressures that affect the combat soldier range from the absolute pits of depression ... to the absolute high that is spurred on by fear. How any one can possibly say how a person will act under every possible combination is beyond me.
The human mind can NOT grasp the number of possible combinations, so there is absolutely NO WAY that any expert can tell how an individual is going to react in combat.