Murder. The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Peace

War and murder have accompanied man throughout history. In addition, with the development of civilization, hostilities have become more intense, and battlefields often turn into places of mass hecatombs. So can we define a person as a born mass murderer? Former US Army Ranger, West Point psychology instructor Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman disputes this idea. Proposing a systematic study of the nature of murder, he argues that most of us avoid killing, and the increase in the number of victims of modern warfare is rather a consequence of the development of training methods and technologies that make military personnel more effective and destructive. But there is another side to this intensification: overcoming the instinctive hatred of killing thanks to modern methods of military training has led to increased combat stress, and the rates of losses from psychological trauma have become correlated with losses from gunshot wounds. Moreover, modern media products in which producers imitate military training methods.