Originally Posted by highthief

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.