Monday, October 3, 2016

Trump Implies Vets Suffering From PTSD 'Can't Handle' War

This is such an unrealistic statement I cannot even believe it. First of all, most people are raised not to kill people. We are conditioned not to do this from birth. Then people join armies and are trained to kill. These are completely contradictory pavlovian trainings conditionings. This is going to give people PTSD in itself. The only way to avoid this would be to use robots to kill and maim instead of people. But, training civilized people to kill only makes people have PTSD. This is true whether they are police, or soldiers worldwide. PTSD comes from civilized people being trained to kill and then having to kill or be killed in a real life situation. PTSD is the inevitable result in most people over time. We are not robots we are human beings. Killing or being almost killed almost always causes psychological problems in people. It always has for thousands of years. To not expect this isn't intelligent.
Donald Trump has come under fire for comments he made during a Q&A with retired veterans Tuesday morning. Speaking with the Retired American Warriors PAC in Virginia, the Republican …

Trump Implies Vets Suffering From PTSD 'Can't Handle' War

Donald Trump has come under fire for comments he made during a Q&A with retired veterans Tuesday morning.
Speaking with the Retired American Warriors PAC in Virginia, the Republican nominee suggested veterans suffering from PTSD are not "strong" and "can't handle" the stresses of war.
"When people come back from war and combat and they see things that, maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it," Trump said.
Trump later vowed to have a "very robust performance" when it came to dealing with veterans and mental health care.
Trump's comments received swift criticism from leaders of veterans organizations. Jon Soltz, an Iraq War Veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, said Trump's statements perpetuate the stigma around mental health and PTSD in the military.
"The fact is, dealing with the mental wounds from war has nothing to do about someone's strength," Soltz said in a statement. "If Donald Trump took even three seconds trying to understand and respect our veterans, he'd understand that."

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