# The Americans, Season 2.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 24, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-americans-season-2/682123 "2014-02-24T17:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-americans-season-2/682123/417 "2014-05-27T04:11:11Z")

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I just happened upon this post in a thread on capital punishment, and I think it’s relevant:

> [@How might the Electric Chair be modernized?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-might-the-electric-chair-be-modernized/689152/66):
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> Even professional soldiers can suffer emotional trauma from killing another human being. My ex-employer is a former British SAS soldier who still has nightmares from having killed one of the enemy.

In other words, his ex-employer is not a psychopath.

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