One particular German was a vicious piece of work and had shot various prisoners who fell by the wayside due to sickness or other inability to proceed. The prisoners were very angry about that. They asked for that guy to be handed to them as a prisoner to deliver to the allies, but the German officer wouldn't have it, knowing that the guy would not have survived long at all.
How is this statement different from my statement, "The desire for revenge is normal"?
Come on, tell the truth.
Do you think it's abnormal for a policeman to keep hitting on a captured felon after he's subdued him? Just for a little while, a few extra blows? I mean, one that was fighting back, who threw some blows and kicks and punches himself, made the cop afraid for his own life.
It's not nice, of course, and we all say, "tsk, tsk," but if you've ever been there, it's something that can't be controlled easily. The lizard part of your brain does the fighting, the monkey part of your brain is afraid and wants to run away, and the frontal lobes get overwhelmed.
When you're sitting in your chair at the computer, the lizard part of your brain is thinking about food, and the monkey part of your brain is thinking about sex, and the frontal lobes are sort of coasting along.
Sweet little old ladies who never raised their voices once in their lives because they grew up in a protective cocoon have no idea whatsoever about what I'm talking about.
Real cops, real soldiers, real prison guards, do. |
