No. I don't see that in this case.Just going to mention the white elephant and see what happens:
The purpose of having a military is to kill other people. It's what they do. Maybe that is how he was able to kill people and go to work and act normal, in his mind, all part of the job?
No, it doesn't literally work that way. Nothing in his training would have prepared him for the kind of stuff he's accused of. He may be highly disciplined, but pilots don't kill like that in the Air Force. they launch missiles from 10 miles+ range and head back to base for tea and medals.Just going to mention the white elephant and see what happens:
The purpose of having a military is to kill other people. It's what they do. Maybe that is how he was able to kill people and go to work and act normal, in his mind, all part of the job?
The military in Western democracies is trained to rat on each other if they see one of their own yell at a captured terrorist. This bastard would have done what he did whether as a civilian working for IBM or in the air force.The purpose of having a military is to kill other people. It's what they do. Maybe that is how he was able to kill people and go to work and act normal, in his mind, all part of the job?
Looks like a temp ban happened...Just going to mention the white elephant and see what happens:
He was also the Pilot for various PM's and Royalty on the CF Challenger jets according to the news
Alleged serial killer.Great, we flew VIPs around on a jet piloted by a serial killer. Good LORD!!
From the very little that has been reported it would seem that the murders were committed by an "organized" killer this would fit with what 3wire and Alex-Ontario wrote above.Mental health is a continuum. The fact that this guy did as well as he did in the military just meant he brought the same organizational ability to his work as he did to his "hobby". Assuming, of course, that he is guilty, which has yet to be proven. If you read up on sociopathy and narcissism, you might understand his "success" better.
(quote from another thread)Hmm I didn't see that article. Still that's one of the bigger B.S. statements I've heard of a Newspaper making in some time.
Macho Man killers, she said in an email Tuesday, tend to be articulate men with significant others who “do well in the workplace,” “are drawn to law enforcement or military,” display an obsessive-compulsive need for things to be “done a very specific way,” “prefer to dress in uniform,” and “stand up very straight, even in personal life.”
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Schurman-Kauflin, Zelig and Pat Brown, a profiler and U.S. television commentator, said Williams could have been drawn to the military by some of the same traits that made him an alleged offender.
Brown noted that a job as a military officer allows for “a level of extreme power and control,” the goal of many sex offenders. Zelig said many serial offenders possess low levels of anxiety; if this were true of Williams, it could partially explain his success as a military pilot. And Schurman-Kauflin said an offender may deliberately seek to attain an elite job because such a position would “help him in many ways,” such as minimizing the possibility he would be suspected of an offence.
Professor Douglas Bland of Queen's University puts it well “There is a separation between an institution and the acts of an individual. There is no suggestion that the culture of the Canadian military generated a character who would commit the kind of acts of which Col. Williams is accused."As to whether of any of this should actually taint the military itself, that will depend on a few things:
-- Did they encourage any behavior which could be described as deviant (think of the Canadian Airborne scandal)?
-- Did they cover up or ignore patterns of behavior that implied deviant behavior?
-- Do they now fully support the investigation, or do they close ranks and try and minimize the problem?
The nightmare scenario for the military is that there are some Canadian Airborne style elements to his past training (where their hazing process involved sexually degrading acts) and there were a litany of complaints about him that were swept under the rug.
Short of that I don't see why his behavior should reflect on the military any more than if he had been working in private industry.
Yeah, I agree. It looks like this guy never saw active combat? And there's no evidence he ever got Canadian Airborne Regiment style training?Professor Douglas Bland of Queen's University puts it well “There is a separation between an institution and the acts of an individual. There is no suggestion that the culture of the Canadian military generated a character who would commit the kind of acts of which Col. Williams is accused."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-tarnish-militarys-reputation/article1462181/
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