# US military policies when witnessing a human rights violation overseas **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-military-policies-when-witnessing-a-human-rights-violation-overseas/854435 "2020-05-25T12:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-military-policies-when-witnessing-a-human-rights-violation-overseas/854435/12 "2020-05-26T00:15:12Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Now with that said, having provided you with a somewhat factual or at least fact-based response, I’ll go out on a limb and suggest, as an actual veteran with PTSD, that perhaps you should reconsider becoming yet another voice claiming to faithfully represent PTSD as experienced by veterans, but without actually having PTSD or being a veteran yourself. I would put it in the same category of misrepresentation, however well-meaning, as doing minimal research (cursory internet) and then writing from the POV of a marginalized group of people, and then going on to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about them in the process. I am not a veteran, but I do have complex PTSD if that helps. It’s possible for people without the condition to depict it well, in my humble and very-well-read opinion. If everyone only wrote what they knew, the world would be full of fairly boring and poorly-executed autobiographies. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-military-policies-when-witnessing-a-human-rights-violation-overseas/854435)._