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There are a lot of platitudes one hears about the combat mindset. Here are just a few examples:

• "There is no such thing as a 'fair' fight."
• "If you fight fair, your tactics suck."
• "Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out."
• "Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire." ("Long live death, long live war, long live the cursed mercenary.") - Mercenary marching cadence and toast.
• "Civilize the mind but make savage the body." - Chairman Mao
• "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud in "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis" via John Pate

There is a reason for these kinds of quotes...... most people are fundamentally decent, and they don't want to have to kill anyone. They have to be taught how, and inculcated with a certain mindset until the point where they are comfortable with it.

Please note, this is not a moral judgement. It just is. Society is partially possible because of our natural reluctance to off one another. For those people who not only don't need to be indoctrinated, even if by themselves, in order to be willing to use deadly force, and are self-motivatedly eager to do so, we call them 'predators.'

All I'm saying is that if these kinds of sayings and writings are what it takes to get an otherwise good person to the point where they could use deadly force in defense of self or others, then that's not such a bad thing. We really should think about it before being willing to strap on the gun.