Reply #9: Cognitive Dissonance [View All]

[Kinkistyle]

I see a lot of that going around the military folk. They see how terrible and wrong the war is, yet they need to believe that somehow this was all for the best. Because if it isn't, all the horror, the dead friends, the sacrifices will be for naught, and that would just be too difficult to accept. The ends justify the means. All the dead innocents, the destruction was for a "greater good". The keystone of religion.

Denial: the first stage of grief. How far away is acceptance?