The training methods militaries use are brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and role modeling. Col. Grossman explains these in military context and shows how the same factors are contributing to the phenomenal increase of violence in our culture.
This article covers rising crime rates, resistance to killing, desensitization, conditioning, how the media contributes to violent behavior, and what can be done to prevent children from being conditioned to kill.
When people are frightened or angry, they will do what they have been conditioned to do. The same conditioning that allows pilots to handle their planes in an emergency, children to walk calmly out of a burning building, and soldiers to kill on the battlefield can enable people exposed to graphic violence
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