On Tuesday 04 September 2018 14:15:01 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > macht nichts. Doesn't make any difference IOW, they are all bad. > > But the Great War was also "The War To End All Wars". Seems to have > worked, eventually. Nobody declares war any more. > No, they just get called terrorists.
> > Mans inhumanity to man knows no bounds and leaves the participants > > in the ditches with what we call PTSD today. Then it was "shell > > shock", same thing they've now given it a "better" name of PTSD > > "Shell shock" initially was assumed to result from bombardment. It was > never well-defined and has fallen out of use. "Combat stress reaction" > refers to an acute (that is, prompt) psychiatric reaction to combat > stress and covers most of what used to be called "shell shock". It > becomes PTSD if it persists for long enough. > > We're going to get flamed again for being off-topic. Thats Godwins Law isn't it? But I'll have to agree, we've about wore it out. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
