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healthy but it certainly won’t make us go crazy. In war time on the other hand, when the four F’s are in full swing is another story.
There are plenty of examples in Apocalypse Now. Capt. KillGore is a fine example, feeding his soldiers steaks and beer the night before a killing rampage, then actually surfing during the raid. This is crazy you might say, but the men have fun, and that keeps them from breaking down. Part of being able to survive a war is loss of emotion. Once you can act on instict you can kill without looking back, without remorse. Killgore does express some compasion though. There is a scene where some of his soldiers would not give a woulded vietnamese soldier water from their canteens. Killgore gives the man water. Of course when he hears that the waves at a the next raid sight are a beutiful with six foot peaks he completely forgets about the man dying at his feet.
Killgore realy plays into the Food and Fun insticts. Killgore’s ...

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USO show. Their first response was to want the women, and then fight for them. It seems obvious that they would have such a response, being without any female contact for so long. Some call this savage, but actualy it is just natural.
Sometimes our quickest, clearest, most pure actions are done without thought. They seem to happen without a single seconds contemplation. Have you ever marveled at the speed with which you jerk your hand back from a hot stove. Do you ever wonder how you can run so fast when a rabid dog is chasing you? Or have you heard the stories of a person trapped under a car suddenly possesing the strength to lift it off himself? These are instinctual brainstem ...

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