Section I - Killing and the Existence of the Resistance:
A World of Virgins Studying Sex

01. (01:00:51) Fight or Flight, Posture or Submit
02. (00:25:22) Nonfirers Throughout History
03. (00:16:26) Why Can't Johnny Kill?
04. (00:04:41) The Nature and Source of the Resistance

Section II - Killing and Combat Trauma:
The Role of Killing in Psychiatric Casualties

05. (00:12:23) The Nature of Psychiatric Casualties: The Psychological Price of War
06. (00:33:21) The Reign of Fear
07. (00:14:18) The Weight of Exhaustion
08. (00:02:40) The Mud of Guilt and Horror
09. (00:14:55) The Wind of Hate
10. (00:06:53) The Well of Fortitude
11. (00:11:45) The Burden of Killing
12. (00:05:01) The Blind Men and the Elephant

Section III - Killing and Physical Distance:
From a Distance, You Don't Look Anything Like a Friend

13. (00:16:27) Distance: A Qualitative Distinction in Death
14. (00:06:46) Killing at Maximum and Long Range: Never a Need for Repentance or Regret
15. (00:04:45) Killing at Mid-and Hand-Grenade Range: "You Can Never Be Sure It Was You"
16. (00:09:29) Killing at Close Range: "I Knew That It Was up to Me, Personally, to Kill Him"
17. (00:21:28) Killing at Edged-Weapons Range: An "Intimate Brutality"
18. (00:03:56) Killing at Hand-to-Hand-Combat Range
19. (00:07:27) Killing at Sexual Range: "The Primal Aggression, the Release, and the Orgasmic Discharge"

Section IV - An Anatomy of Killing:
All Factors Considered

20. (00:13:33) The Demands of Authority: Milgram and the Military
21. (00:13:10) Group Absolution: "The Individual Is Not a Killer, but the Group Is"
22. (00:28:37) Emotional Distance:"To Me They Were Less than Animals"
23. (00:09:19) The Nature of the Victim: Relevance and Payoff
24. (00:15:57) Aggressive Predisposition of the Killer: Avengers, Conditioning, and the 2 Percent Who Like It
25. (00:09:28) All Factors Considered: The Mathematics of Death

Section V - Killing and Atrocities:
"No Honor Here, No Virtue"

26. (00:14:51) The Full Spectrum of Atrocity
27. (00:23:09) The Dark Power of Atrocity
28. (00:05:25) The Entrapment of Atrocity
29. (00:09:02) A Case Study of Atrocity
30. (00:11:35) The Greatest Trap of All: To Live with That Which Thou Hath Wrought

Section VI - The Killing Response Stages

31. (00:17:13) What Does It Feel Like To Kill?
32. (00:08:18) Applications of the Model: Murder-Suicides, Lost Elections, and Thoughts of Insanity

Section VII - Killing in Vietnam:
What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?

33. (00:27:33) Desensitization and Conditioning in Vietnam: Overcoming the Resistance to Killing
34. (00:38:19) What Have We Done To Our Soldiers? The Rationalization of Killing and How It Failed in Vietnam
35. (00:18:16) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Cost of Killing in Vietnam
36. (00:11:36) The Limits of Human Endurance and the Lessons of Vietnam

Section VIII- Killing in America:
What Are We Doing to Our Children

37. (00:12:00) A Virus of Violence
38. (00:11:13) Desensitization and Pavlov's Dog at the Movies
39. (00:09:53) B. F. Skinner's Rats and Operant Conditioning at the Video Arcade
40. (00:12:53) Social Learning and Role Models in the Media
41. (00:24:20) The Resensitization of America

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The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion.

The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The psychological cost for the rest of us is even more so: contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young.

Upon its first publication, On Killing was hailed as a landmark study of the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence.

Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent crime rates, suicide bombings, school shootings, and much more. The result is a work that is sure to be relevant and important for decades to come.

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