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Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by grzm » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

dba7dba wrote: post #20

grzm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it would be worth providing a reference with a claim like this, as a courtesy rather than as proof, so to speak. If it's interesting enough to post in a comment, it's likely interesting enough that others would want to read more about it.

I apologize for not including source as I was typing it on my phone. I just googled "public company ceos are psychopaths" and found http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-p... among others. "Australian study has found that about one in five corporate executives are psychopaths – roughly the same rate as among prisoners. The study of 261 senior professionals in the United States found that 21 per c…

Cheers. I wasn't able to find details of Brooks' research online. Looks like it's yet to be published in the European Journal of Psychology.

http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/one-in-five-ceo-s-are-psychopat...

Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by lightbyte » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #19

Let's not beat around the bush here. These guys are government authorised death squads. Many of them are psychopathic or deeply scared by what they've seen and done. They learn to treat the enemy as subhuman. That leads to a lack of respect of the dead and any war conventions. Is it really so surprising that this was the outcome?

They are essentially equal to the terrorists they fight against in my eyes.

Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by mark_chosenberg » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

Behind the heroic narratives of building brand new autobahns it turns out the nazis killed a lot of people.

Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by michaelbuddy » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #19

Let's not beat around the bush here. These guys are government authorised death squads. Many of them are psychopathic or deeply scared by what they've seen and done. They learn to treat the enemy as subhuman. That leads to a lack of respect of the dead and any war conventions. Is it really so surprising that this was the outcome?

Yes, let's not beat around the bush. You have NO insight on this matter, and your propaganda doesn't belong on this forum.

Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by sleepingeights » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 11:04 PM UTC

The article is about the failure to make something honorable of the worst actions a person does to another. What is so surprising of that fact other than the US spending billions on their Navy SEAL brand and exceptionalism? They could spend trillions on prettying up the act of war on men who only find killing another to be their only solution and they will still have the same problem if not worse.

"Canoeing" itself is a tradition in the US armed forces long before the SEAL Team 6 undisciplined actions. It was common for US military soldiers and Americans to refer to Chinese and Koreans as "zipper heads" because they used to shoot those civilians and PoWs for sport in the same manner as the Navy SEALs practiced in their desecration and mutilation of enemy combatants.

Re: The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

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Post by regressiveparty » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 5:48 AM UTC

lightbyte wrote: post #22

junto wrote: post #19

Let's not beat around the bush here. These guys are government authorised death squads. Many of them are psychopathic or deeply scared by what they've seen and done. They learn to treat the enemy as subhuman. That leads to a lack of respect of the dead and any war conventions. Is it really so surprising that this was the outcome?

They are essentially equal to the terrorists they fight against in my eyes.

So blowing up a bomb in a market thats specifically designed to target innocent civilians = shooting an enemy combatant corpse after its dead

Great logic.