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Old Jul 7, 2005, 01:30 am   #81 (permalink) (top)
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I think that the major factor that keeps us from killing one another is empathy. We are born to be naturally empathetic. People who cannot feel empathy for their fellow human are broken. A great deal of what goes on in wartime is demonization of the enemy. The goal is to make soldiers see the enemy as something less than human and thus defeat their natural tendency to empathize.

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