‘It’s not easy to take a life’: is coping with PTSD harder for US soldiers?
Other, more traditional societies seem better at dealing with the ‘moral injury’ warriors suffer through having killed
When anthropologist Sarah Mathew traveled to the borderlands of Kenya and South Sudan in 2008 to study warfare, she asked an interview subject if he had ever been shot. She did not expect to be shown a completely fresh gun wound.
“He had just gotten it two days ago,” she said. The wound was raw, pink and oozing yellow pus.
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