Psychology of War Criminals (TalkTV with Petrie Hosken)
April 29, 2024
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as posted by the channelNo ethical consensus regarding what constitutes a Just War and the permissibility of civilian casualties.
There are international conventions and courts + domestic laws + Army guidelines.
PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR CRIMES
Bonding and intimacy among combatants, but even with the enemy which is life-threatening: Objectification, Dehumanization via splitting and reaction formation, attribution errors.
Paranoid ideation and persecutory delusions.
Self-empowerment, reassertion of control: Perception of necessary self-defense, greater good, preemption (anxiolytic), resolution or closure (vengeance, retribution, ledger settling accounts), righteouness.
Raw purity, exaltation, apotheosis (omnipotence), catharsis (Colonel Kurz in Apocalypse Now): sadistic, narcissistic psychopaths.
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