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Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury
Recent work comparing soldiers in combat to those on peacekeeping missions finds that when it comes to the psychological impact of taking a life, the context of the mission matters
These findings contradict the commonly-held idea that killing is an 'unnatural' act for humans that inevitably inflicts a moral injury on the individual, the researchers write in Armed Forces and Society. The analyses also revealed that for the peacekeeping soldiers, feeling that their own safety had been threatened while on deployment or witnessing someone else suffering were both linked to poorer psychological wellbeing. "There is a widespread belief in society that taking the life of another person goes against human nature, and that this will easily create what psychotraumatology refers to as 'moral injuries'," said Nordstrand in a press release.
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