It Doesn't Have to Make Sense:
It's Just the Law!
Physical and Mental Considerations

Twenty-five centuries ago, a Greek soldier stood in the shield wall in close combat. The man next to him took an axe to the head. Although not touched himself, the shock gave the soldier traumatic blindness. Twenty-five years ago, an experienced police officer killed in self-defense. Other officers who responded to the incident found him frozen in shock and literally had to pry the gun from his hand. The officer had killed twice at close range in Vietnam, but it is different when one is alone and at home where violence is not supposed to happen. Twenty-five days ago, somewhere, something similar doubtless occurred, and very likely twenty-five hours ago too. These men suffered stress reactions from close combat. This reaction has been called by many names from "demonic possession" twenty-five centuries ago, to "soldier's heart" during the Civil War, to "shell shock" in WWI to "combat fatigue" in WWII. Since . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)