Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter?
>Be me >Download and watched countless gore videos online >Its gotten to a point where i go to these videos/pictures whenever i am mad. >Started sharing them to friends. >"You sick fuck" "Do you not have empathy?" I think back to Lt Spiers quote about accepting the fact youre already dead, but why is it a bad thing to not feel emotions over a fucking video? Are they right about me not having empathy? How do i know if i have empathy or if i am simply desensitized?
You’re not dead You’re actually very alive when you see this shit irl and not over a video screen. Try joining the military and stop posting you underage summer faggot.
Matthew Ortiz
>Generic "I'm so fucking dead inside because I watch gore videos on the internet!" post #42069
Actually, no. Lack of empathy or other socialising emotions would hinder you bonding into a team. >It's not called 'Band of Brothers' because they were all related. Stay in your incel basement wanking to gore clips while real men bond into a combat unit.
Elijah Bailey
i thought i was hard as they come. watched all the efukt and gore fetish shit i could find, just cause i thought the same way you think. volunteered for all the extra shit, training, extra range time, all the shit i had available. i was a fucking badass, causr i was 22 and all 22 year old green LTs think theyre hot shit. Then i shot a teenager in the throat from about 30 feet. justified, he picked up some shit from some other sorry fuck, wasnt an AK, want to say it was a g3. my cpl yelled some shit at him in urdu or whatever, kid kept going, i just shot before my guys did. tell you what, its fine the first couple of days. think it was day 6 he first showed up in the back of my mind when i was getting the designated 2 hours of shuteye. got 0. chaplain was keeping a better eye on me than medical and noticed me getting fucked up progressively over the next week. chaplains fuckin suck tho, always christfags who only know bible shit and how to pray. fucker carried a sidearm at least. im guessin youre a kid, so i probably cant tell you anything that wouldnt keep you from enlisting specifically to shoot people, but the same shit happened to my other guys who had to do it too. i finished my duty years soon as i could, but i still get to see that kid every once in a while. mostly when im in my cups after my own kid goes to sleep. think what you want, id do the same thing a thousand times if it meant my unit all got to go home that day, but just think about things before you do anything rash little dude
>tl;dr fuck you
Hunter Sullivan
also fuck you extra, you killed a thread for this bullshit
Aiden Parker
>Its gotten to a point where i go to these videos/pictures whenever i am mad.
You'd crack
Ian Jackson
you have to be 18 to post on this board
Brandon Morgan
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Xavier Wright
Not underage faggots, i saw a thread on /gif/ about someone talking about not being able to watch shocking footage and all the anons were telling him its a good thing he has empathy. So it got me thinking about this and Jow Forums related situations.
I would say empathy to a degree makes you a better fighter... You know how hard they are fighting and why so you smash them into the ground so you can keep you and yours.
Caleb Morgan
If you aren't going to contribute LEAVE This guy reminds me of me and I want to see where it goes
Everything changes when you watch the life leave someone’s eyes. Esp when it’s someone you care about. I’m not gonna green text it but I watched my best friend die in my arms as a child and even though he’s been dead for 13 years I still see his face on people sometimes. It’s fucked me up for a while
Cooper Ramirez
>Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter?
No. Discipline, intelligence, physical fitness, willingness to follow orders, and desire to learn make good fighters. Warfighting isn't unlike everything else in the world. Nobody walks in off the street as a capable combatant. That's why training is necessary. Half of the retards who think they're the next Georgi Zhukov fail miserably because of their assumptions.
Question: Do you feel empathy for having to give head when you suck yourself off watching goreshit, or do you empathise with other guys who get blown by real women?
Cameron Sanchez
This....so much >be me >mom gets sick >sit by bedside until she passes >fast forward one year >at beach in water (she loved the beach) >turn around to get out >see mom walking towards water >actually say "mom?" >realize its just another woman who looks strikingly similar to my mom >Some random woman almost got the hug of her life Sorry friend, I know this feel
Adrian Ramirez
Your friends sound like bitchy urbanite faggots.
Nolan Miller
The Americans are sleeping hence no other edgyfags.
Brandon Bailey
Should’ve sucked her pussy
John Sanders
Americans are sleeping that’s why the threads are shit and you filth are talking about your fucking feelings and other gay shit that doesn’t belong on Jow Forums. Worry not, because we’re awake now ready to rock and roll. We’ll take the watch from here.
Grayson Sullivan
>I think back to Lt Spiers quote about accepting the fact youre already dead, but why is it a bad thing to not feel emotions over a fucking video? >Are they right about me not having empathy? How do i know if i have empathy or if i am simply desensitized? You're only desensitized to fake video gore.
It's nothing, absolutely nothing, like seeing it in person.
Xavier Jenkins
OP this is a weapons board, not a “it’s just a phase mom” board. Stick to not being a piece of shit and grow up.
In any type of exchange whoever has the most empathy loses. It's part of the reason why psychopaths/sociopaths do so well in business and government. Harden your heart.
Richard Ramirez's cousin was a decorated Green Beret who stored photos of dead raped gooks. He snapped and killed his gf.
I personally know a former OIF Ranger whose obsessed with those shock sites.
Hunter Richardson
trying to learn about killing through videos and reading shit online is like a virgin trying to learn about sex from pornography. It doesn't work. You get the gist of it but the intense emotion of the raw deal is not something you'll ever get til it happens. I'm not a killer but I work with guys who have killed. Almost all of them regret it (there's always a few psychos). Lack of empathy is stupid and for savages. I'd much rather go my whole life prepared for it but without ever having to take another life. I don't want to lose that innocence, neither do you user. Compare Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino to that Jow Forums copypasta about the American Soldier in Iraq who found a baby girl whose parents were dead and kept her with them on patrol til he could hand her over to a hospital for care. Fed her, changed her, carried her, gave her attention, comforted her. What kind of man do you want to be at the end of your life?
>Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter? No, it does not. Who ever has the greater will to survive does.
Liam Bailey
Contribute to what? OPs delusion that watching edgy internet videos makes him too cool for school?
Lucas Lewis
>Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter?
No. Most cases, a soldier claiming to lack empathy is just an insufferable edgelord who irritates his entire unit with his retarded self-aggrandizing and will catch 0 sympathy when someone domes him.
In far rarer cases, someone who actually does have a severe lack of empathy will be a social incompetent with absolutely no idea how to work in a unit. The best outcomes are Section 8 or hanging for the inevitable war crimes you'd commit afterwards. See pic for examples
>Be me >Download and watched countless gore videos online >Its gotten to a point where i go to these videos/pictures whenever i am mad. >Started sharing them to friends. >"You sick fuck" "Do you not have empathy?"
Surprise surprise, you're a teenage edgelord getting off to pixels. For your own sake at least, find a better outlet for your mood swings and never get into an actual fight.
It’s the empathy you have for your friends and fellow warriors that makes you a good fighter, not empathy for the enemy.
Hudson Adams
Depends. I dont think you like lack empathy just because you are desenzibiled. Imagine me, becoming aroused from squeeling of dieing pig which I was helping butcher with my uncle last year. Now thats not normal.
Christian Nguyen
>Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter?
No. And a lack of empathy is probably a very specific psychological thing that doesn't apply to you. It's a lot more likely you're just a damaged person acting out this way because you don't want to confront what you really are. Ironically, it's your instability that would keep you from being able to handle killing people in combat, watching your friends die slow deaths, and then still carrying on with the mission.
If you accept that these videos are wrong and that you should be disturbed by them, then it becomes very easy to kill the sorts of people who do those things in the first place while keeping your conscience clear.
Ethan Hernandez
Cant smell it through a screen either, it doesn't smell like freshly cut grass I'll tell you that for free. I think it was Jefferey Dahmer, the cannibalistic serial killing necrophiliac,that said the worst part of it all was dealing with the corpses once he was done, said he had to get himself drunk in order to deal with the task, the smell and the mess of the whole thing, it absolutely revolted him, a cannibalistic serial killing necrophiliac.
You are not hard, you are not cool, and I personally think that you secretly hate them gore videos but force yourself to watch some of them in an effort to validate your own egotistical opinion of yourself as a "Cold-as-ice hard man sociopath with a mean streak, who all the girls just dont understand, but want to, and all the guys fear.", in reality, you are a sad lonely edgy piece of shit that is so uninteresting, shitty and weird that you have to try and use these 'shock values' in an attempt to stick out from the people around you and try and make up for you vacant social skills that stop you being a decent normal person, your 'friends' tolerate you, and I can guarantee that all your going on about how much gore videos you can stomach and how you like them really just pisses them off, or at best entertains them and gives them something to laugh about and poke fun at when you walk away, they don't like you, but they don't have the guts to tell you to fuck off, its like kicking a mangy dog, cease you edgy faggotry at once and make a fucking effort to fit in like a normal human being, women probably despise you so start talking with some lads about normal things and work from there.
Low empathy societies generally perform terribly at warfare.
Case in point: China
Compare it to Germany - high empathy but succeeded in dehumanizing the enemy wholly - empathy aids in social cohesion - which aids in teambuilding and group effectiveness. Germans were much more effective on the battlefield with similar equipment (Chinese had Mausers and MG-34's and still got their shit pushed in)
Carter Clark
Boohoo I joined the army and killed an enemy combatant. What the fuck did you expect? You did the right thing, that haji would of killed you or your buddies and would not of given a shit.
The Army likes team players, not sociopaths that only care about eating people. The CIA is for people like that. People that call the Military "babykillers" are usually confusing them for the intelligence agencies which DO kill innocents unflinchingly if it's more efficient that way to do something.
Nathaniel Morgan
OH MY GOD I FUCKING HATE SUMMER! but not because the reason you think, its because whenever someone makes a dumb post absolutely everyone goes apeshit going "hurr durr summerfag summerfag summerfag summerfag." for the rest of the damn year I don't see this, people just ignore the dumb post and/or call them dumb. but not during summer more and more people call people summerfags than actual summerfags.
Eli Rogers
>empathy or if i am simply desensitized? you have been desensitized since you made that gay porn video?
Never killed anyone, but worked a lot of people who ended up dying. It isn’t cool, and subjecting yourself willingly to that type of thing because you’re unable to deal with your own emotions isn’t cool. Like everyone in the thread is saying, videos don’t do it justice. I used to be like you, I thought since I could watch a video without feeling much, this job would be easy. Then I ran my first wreck and finished it by zipping up a 21 year old girl in a bodybag. It’s not easy, and there’s a lot of guilt associated with losing a patient, so I can’t fathom the feelings from actually killing someone. My advice to you user is that it’s probably just a phase relative to your teenage angst and curiosity about death. If you’re sure it isn’t a phase, I would think about seeking a discussion with a mental health expert about why these things fascinate you so much. Hope you find what you’re looking for
>reminds me of me What, fucking 16 years old and on summer break? Fuck off and kill yourself.
Oliver Walker
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY
Jaxon Robinson
>Would a lack of empathy make one a better fighter? No.I think you're a rather pathetic sad edgy attention whore child who has been insufficiently beaten.
Andrew Bennett
OP is gayer than the sperg in those pics. He things /b gave him superpowers of watching gore that means he's a bringer of death in his sperg rage fits.
Thomas Gutierrez
I work as an emt in a bad city and i still feel bad for the hoodrats that get shot/killed
Matthew Diaz
>This guy reminds me of me try hard edgy teen? >I want to see where it goes Literally nowhere except maybe his mother will have him medicated for a quiet life because he's too sperg to be allowed to be himself with his death ninja got watching ability and sperg fits.
David Morales
>Being this much of a faggot and caring about your patients
Blake King
t. OP
Jose Martinez
Actually I'm current with the NREMT and certified in my state. If you care about your job in any capacity other than a professional one your bitch boy attitude should work somewhere else.
>everyone here implying that Jow Forums are high morale role models and not edgelords themselves who fantasize about fighting in wars with their nuggets and larp gear. >implying that its uncommon to dehumanize our enemies in war.
>implying you've been blown by real women >women probably despise you Should've left it at the first paragraph that was what I wanted to hear. Eat a dick >Create post about empathy, shock videos and potential results from them during war scenarios >"REEE UNDERAGE SUMMERFAG KYS" Ps I'm 19 I should've left out the green text, I did come off as a fag now that I think about it.
No, a sense of companionship and need to protect the man beside you is exactly what makes a soldier effective.
Carter Rogers
Not to sound like an edgy prick but I watched my grandma who I was not very close with (as in, I'd seen her maybe 5 times before she was terminally ill) die and immediately shit herself and I can honestly say it's never bothered me that much outside of seeing my mom upset in the moment. Even her boyfriend cried bizarrely enough but I just sat there kind of numb to the situation and wishing that I was sad so that my mom didn't feel so alone.
I do agree that losing somebody I care about would probably be much more traumatic but I don't think that seeing a human die is inherently traumatizing.
Ian Hill
had fun trying to write it and keep it on the edge, feel free to steal. kinda looks like a fever dream to me now
Jackson Collins
>Its gotten to a point where i go to these videos/pictures whenever i am mad. I'd be more concerned that you conditioned yourself to see violence as a means to deal with your anger.
