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Letter: Can violence be treated as disease?

Published 9 December 2015

From Peter Lavers

To understand how a person can be made to overcome an aversion to killing others, look at military training and the inculcation of a belief system that justifies committing violence as being lawfully sanctioned.

Distinguishing between “collateral damage” and “terrorism” requires looking at the objective facts through the prism of a belief system that sanctions one but not the other.
Canberra, Australia

Issue no. 3051 published 12 December 2015

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