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RE: Psychobabble
Not me. Strangely, our FOB was remarkably barren of critters. I think I saw a few cats once but they scurried away into the darkness and I never saw them again. And I certainly didn't abuse my pets (or family) when I returned either.
As a matter of fact, I friend of mine is over there right now that befriended a puppy they found on their Iraqi compound. He's actually pissed that he'll probably have to take pictures of himself with the puppy off his page before fanatics start "interpreting" them as some kind of pre-torture.
Another friend of mine even had a pet rat that lived near his building. He enjoyed trying to get the rat to come out from hiding just for the sake of having some sort of animal companionship.
On another tour a friend was telling me about a random horse that showed up on their FOB that everyone thought was pretty cool.
RE: Psychobabble
Aren't there teens in suburbia doing similar evils? What's the trauma excuse for them?
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Psychobabble
A behavior and psychiatric professor at Stanford describes the stresses that may lead to such behavior, "You're constantly confronting those fears and one of the ways to confront that may be by showing you're the one that renders other creatures helpless. The thought is that 'I'm not the one who gets thrown off a cliff, I'm the one doing it."
Ok, so it's not that maybe this Marine is just a douchebag, it's because of the war. Show of hands: how many of us O-Nerds who went to war and lived daily under the threat of mortar/rocket attacks or getting blown up by IED/VBIEDs mistreated animals?
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