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On Killing

by Dave Grossman

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First published
1995
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Dave Grossman wrote On Killing in 1995, drawing on military training research and combat veteran interviews. His central claim was that most humans have a strong instinctive resistance to killing other humans, and that historically this resistance has caused soldiers to fire over their enemies' heads or fail to fire at all.

Grossman traces what he sees as the deliberate breaking down of that resistance through twentieth century military training, and then extends the argument to violent media and video games as a kind of unintentional civilian conditioning.

The book has been cited widely. It has also been challenged on specific points, particularly the original S.L.A. Marshall research about World War Two firing rates that Grossman builds on.

For readers in military, law enforcement, or any field that touches the psychology of violence, the book is still required reading. The arguments around media effects have aged less well, but the central thesis still drives debate.

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Dave Grossman

This is not David Grossman the Israeli novelist. Dave Grossman is a retired American army lieutenant colonel who coined the word killology and wrote On Killing, which argues that most people carry a deep resistance to killing and that modern military conditioning has been designed to override it. The historical spine of that case is S. L. A.

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First published
1995
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
368
Language
English
Genre
History
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