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Aeolus451 on 30 May 2017
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WolfpackN64 said:
Aeolus451 said:
1. People have become softer because society condemns any violence even when it's justified. We've become so sensitive to it that a lot of people have trouble coping with carrying it out. Testing to see if a person mentally able to handle it before putting them into a combat role would be the easiest way around the oversensitive people.

2. Lack of proper healthcare for vets.

Btw, obama tried to do away with vets' healthcare but people got mad at him so he downgraded the military's healthcare instead.

So people commit more suicide because they're softer? Violence when it's justified? Tell me, how many justifiable wars has the US joined in the last 10 years? Seems like you don't really appreciate your veterans.

I appreciate them fine but I prefer to be honest and practical about what is causing this sort of stuff. I'll elaborate a bit more. American society bashes violence all the way from the weakest form of it to the highest. In other words, as a general rule, modern society conditions us to not be violent with the aim to erase violent tendacies from people (not possible) but it sensitizes them to it. When we have to commit violence, our minds have a harder time coping with the stark reality to what we were taught and we see then finally accepting it. It's called conditioning.

A person who's born into a country where's it is in a state of war constantly would be conditioned to that way of life and would have have less qualms/issues with being violent to others compared to a person who was raised in the states and conditioned to not even defend themselves. I think that the mental unstabliness of US soldiers is an adverse effect of that. Before you try to say that the US is always in a state of war, american society doesn't experience war in person. There's a world of difference between witnessing and living it in person compared to watching it on cnn for a few mins. Anyway, the suicides are likely their way of coping with what they experienced and not being able to conform back into society. I consider US troops mentally soft but I don't mean that as a slur but rather as a point of fact when you compare the stock (people) where those troops come from compared to people in other countries that are at war alot.

In cause you still want to debate that US troops are soft and that likely leads to them having more mental issues afterwards, do you know what stress cards are?