One of the things I've been fascinated with is "blackout" or "reflex" violence, when a person claims that "something snaps" and then they have to infer, after the fact, that they must have performed a violent act. I've treated this in passing in my papers on Columbine and on contemporary military training. In this New York Times article, we see in the first anecdote what sounds like blackout or reflex violence. I wonder if the person in question here had received "shoot / no shoot" training, which I talk about in the military training paper?
Cross posted at 4EA Cognition.
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