I never said it was an either or situation. Everyone seemed to be focusing on the dogs… I felt some consideration needed to be given for what was being done to those men.
Those commandos that survive to retire will have to try to find a way to live in normal society after what’s been done to them.
The dogs only die.
Both are terrible. But I couldn’t imagine a life after going through that training.
I understand that CRorex, it’s definitely an atrocity, but I guess we can only deal with so much at a time. This thread is to deal with the just purely heartwrenching (dogs just trigger that reaction) torture of animals…
I’d be just as horrified in a thread about the lives of these soldiers.
One thing at a time. Does that make sense?
Maybe not.
The US model for special forces/commandos is to offer the best of the normal miliarty a chance for more challenging assignments. They screen out social devients because people who kill for pleasure and enjoy inflicting pain generally don’t obey orders very well. There is also a mystique created about the elite units. It’s the best of the best, they serve the country with greater self sacrafice and honor. Basically you want to create ultra-fanatics for your cause. People who do, to what the vast majority of the population, can’t contemplate for the sake of honor and defending their country.
Generally you recruite idealistic young men, individuals who want to dedicate their lives to protecting their countrymen. You need to instill a sense of honor and brotherhood to ensure loyality. Because with their commando training will come a lot of power. They have had the normal human reluctance to kill overridden and lots of training with armed and unarmed combat.
When you make a human being that dangerous, you HAVE to also make them controllable. And with men trained to kill like that, I don’t think it’s possible to control them by threats on their wellbeing or freedom. They have the training and willpower to neutralize threats. The controlling mechanism HAS to be a feelling of accomplishing something more than what they are, a sense of being part of a larger whole. And a willingness to enter hostile envirments and risk death and dismemberment without reluctance.
Generally speaking psychopaths would be too difficult to control, to centered on the self to see any need (save a large quantity of money… but money is a bad control… someone can always decide whatever you ask them to do isn’t worth the risk) to submit to truely dangerous circumstances.
Nope makes sense.
I find it safe to assume that our special forces skip this part of the training, and could still probably eat those backasswards dog stabbing stone age fucks for breakast.
Rambo didn’t practice on no dogs.
Yeah, but Rambo wasn’t being trained to torture and kill citizens of his own country without questioning the orders he was given. If you want to train someone to torture and kill innocent civilians, and blindly obey the orders they’re given, that’s how you do it.