[Vision2020] women in the infantry

[Ron Force]

>From William Saletan (www.slate.com) on why men make better soldiers:
convince them the enemy are bad guys, and they take pleasure in killing. Not
so for women.

More evidence that men are vindictive: Brain scans show that when somebody
they dislike suffers pain, men—but not women—show a) zero activity in
empathy-related parts of the brain and b) a surge of activity in
pleasure-related parts of the brain. In the study, disliked people were
those who had behaved selfishly in a game. Interpretations: 1) Men are born
mean. 2) Men are made mean. 3) Men are deeply ethical and reserve empathy
for those who deserve it. 4) Men do women a service by instinctively
punishing cheaters.

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Ron Force          Moscow ID USA
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