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Spending 1 trillion dollars and killing hundreds of thousands, friends or enemies, to avenge the death of 3000 Americans, on the surface, is institutional insanity. There is no excuse for that either.

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Read  The Biology Of Violence  by Debra Niehoff  Ph.D

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You are wise troop! You would be invaluable in working with this newest generation of Vets, God knows there are thousands of Jessie out there ready to go off!

Thanks for your contribution, Semper Fi!

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You obviously have insight to this disorder which should also lead you to develop coping strategies in anticipation of mal- aggressive impulses.Medications help mediate impulses and help you have moments of self reflection to reconsider and reflect on alternative behaviors.Insight like you have makes you very able to recover. Your brains plasticity means it can still change and provide better control in the future.In the mean time, try to make amends, do random acts of kindness , if you can. You can't undue what you have done, but in life, there is some sort of balance in the long run.Keep your faith to see you through one day at a time.Carry on.

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How can this happen?. Both these people premeditated this incident that resulted in murder. This was not a crime of impulse, an irresistible PTSD flashback symptom and should not be a factor in explaining this maladaptive aggression in this incident.The experts have already ruled,so this opinion is moot now.There should have been fMRI pictures of the brain showing it's malfunctioning, then there would be reason to believe bad wiring did contribute.There was no such evidence.

 PTSD is a disorder of the neuroanatomy, a rewired brain that will malfunction under certain circumstances. Spontaneous,uncontrolled rage is a factor because those mediating circuits have been rewired by boot camp and battlefield trauma.The etiology of maladaptive aggression explains aggression to prevent it or reduce the risk.PTSD as an "abuse excuse" is not the purpose of the science.It should never become a shibboleth for explaining premeditated murder.

 There probably will be cases where PTSD will be a valid defense for mal-adaptive aggression.I don't think this is the case.

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