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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I think the point being made is that you can train and train and then train some more... but until you actually kill someone, or witness bodies falling like sacks of wet cement, etc. you really don't know how you will react.
I don't care who you are or how "badass" you might think you are... you will react how you will react and all that training can do is give you some tools to help cope with your reactions.
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Exactly - all the armchair Jack Ryans and James Bonds who think otherwise are living in a video game. Cops, firefighters, doctors, military personnel, nurses - these people see horrible things, and have to make even more horrible choices about who lives and who dies, and not one of them, unless they are a complete psychopath, knows how they will react when they have to deal with such things.
Even hardened veteran soldiers, who may have killed several times, have been known to "fall apart" for lack of a better term, on their next mission. Or turn to the bottle or pills for what they've had to do.