Why Are They Smiling?. G. Jeffrey MacDonald.
by Macdonald, G. Jeffrey; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 16Human Relations. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Abu Ghraib Prison (Iraq) | Ethics | Iraq War (2003) -- Prisoners and prisons | Military ethics | Prisoners -- Treatment | Prisoners of war -- Iraq | Sadism | United States -- Armed Forces -- Forces in Iraq | War -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Psychologists, theologians, and a journalist who researched war for years hold that, under certain conditions, otherwise ordinary people can be susceptible to adopting a warped mentality in which they take pleasure in another's suffering....But most cite the strangeness of a war zone, where otherwise honorable people--awash in feelings of duty, camaraderie, and revenge--sometimes lose the moral compass that guided their behavior in their former lives." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the fiery emotions of war and a foreign environment can conspire to lower moral inhibitions."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Why Are They Smiling?, May 26, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Psychologists, theologians, and a journalist who researched war for years hold that, under certain conditions, otherwise ordinary people can be susceptible to adopting a warped mentality in which they take pleasure in another's suffering....But most cite the strangeness of a war zone, where otherwise honorable people--awash in feelings of duty, camaraderie, and revenge--sometimes lose the moral compass that guided their behavior in their former lives." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the fiery emotions of war and a foreign environment can conspire to lower moral inhibitions."
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