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DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A Brief Note Concerning Gender
INTRODUCTION TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
The Existence of the “Safety Catch”
Taking Off the Safety Catch
A Worldwide Virus of Violence
How It Works: Acquired Violence Immune Deficiency
“Just Turn It Off,” or “Let Them Eat Cake”
INTRODUCTION
Killing and Science: On Dangerous Ground
A Personal Note
SECTION I
Killing and the Existence of Resistance:
A World of Virgins Studying Sex
CHAPTER ONE
Fight or Flight, Posture or Submit
CHAPTER TWO
Nonfirers Throughout History
CHAPTER THREE
Why Can’t Johnny Kill?
CHAPTER FOUR
The Nature and Source of the Resistance
SECTION II
Killing and Combat Trauma:
The Role of Killing in Psychiatric Casualties
CHAPTER ONE
The Nature of Psychiatric Casualties:
The Psychological Price of War
CHAPTER TWO
The Reign of Fear
CHAPTER THREE
The Weight of Exhaustion
CHAPTER FOUR
The Mud of Guilt and Horror
CHAPTER FIVE
The Wind of Hate
CHAPTER SIX
The Well of Fortitude
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Burden of Killing
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Blind Men and the Elephant
SECTION III
Killing and Physical Distance:
From a Distance, You Don’t Look Anything Like a Friend
CHAPTER ONE
Distance:
A Qualitative Distinction in Death
CHAPTER TWO
Killing at Maximum and Long Range:
Never a Need for Repentance or Regret
CHAPTER THREE
Killing at Mid- and Hand-Grenade Range:
“You Can Never Be Sure It Was You”
CHAPTER FOUR
Killing at Close Range: “I Knew That It Was up to Me, Personally, to Kill Him”
CHAPTER FIVE
Killing at Edged-Weapons Range:
An “Intimate Brutality”
CHAPTER SIX
Killing at Hand-to-Hand-Combat Range
CHAPTER SEVEN
Killing at Sexual Range: “The Primal Aggression, the Release, and the Orgasmic Discharge”
SECTION IV
An Anatomy of Killing:
All Factors Considered
CHAPTER ONE
The Demands of Authority:
Milgram and the Military
CHAPTER TWO
Group Absolution: “The Individual Is Not a Killer, but the Group Is”
CHAPTER THREE
Emotional Distance: “To Me They Were Less than Animals”
CHAPTER FOUR
The Nature of the Victim:
Relevance and Payoff
CHAPTER FIVE
Aggressive Predisposition of the Killer:
Avengers, Conditioning, and the 2 Percent Who Like It
CHAPTER SIX
All Factors Considered:
The Mathematics of Death
SECTION V
Killing and Atrocities:
“No Honor Here, No Virtue”
CHAPTER ONE
The Full Spectrum of Atrocity
CHAPTER TWO
The Dark Power of Atrocity
CHAPTER THREE
The Entrapment of Atrocity
CHAPTER FOUR
A Case Study in Atrocity
CHAPTER FIVE
The Greatest Trap of All: To Live with That Which Thou Hath Wrought
SECTION VI
The Killing Response Stages:
What Does It Feel Like to Kill?
CHAPTER ONE
The Killing Response Stages
CHAPTER TWO
Applications of the Model:
Murder-Suicides, Lost Elections, and Thoughts of Insanity
SECTION VII
Killing in Vietnam:
What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?
CHAPTER ONE
Desensitization and Conditioning in Vietnam:
Overcoming the Resistance to Killing
CHAPTER TWO
What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?
The Rationalization of Killing and How It Failed in Vietnam
CHAPTER THREE
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
and the Cost of Killing in Vietnam
CHAPTER FOUR
The Limits of Human Endurance and the Lessons of Vietnam
SECTION VIII
Killing in America:
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
CHAPTER ONE
A Virus of Violence
CHAPTER TWO
Desensitization and Pavlov’s Dog at the Movies
CHAPTER THREE
B. F. Skinner’s Rats and
Operant Conditioning at the Video Arcade
CHAPTER FOUR
Social Learning and Role Models in the Media
CHAPTER FIVE
The Resensitization of America
Bibliography
Selected Books
Personal Narratives from Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Index
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