How to Grow a Soldier

The ingredients necessary to grow children into adults willing to do violence to other human beings

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As a person with both behavior management expertise and over three decades in the martial arts, I may have a slightly different perspective than the average person does. Let's put a completely fictitious society together designed to increase violence in their children to the point where they are willing to kill other human beings.

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The first thing I would do is to introduce violence to the children at an early age. Now, I wouldn't want to scare the children and accidentally modify their behavior into thinking violence was a negative activity, so I'd try to make the violence entertaining. No one getting seriously hurt even under the most extreme circumstances. Children at this young age distract easily and I'd need them to observe violent behavior for a long time. I would add lots of colors and perhaps to make the training even more entertaining and decrease the chances of reverse behavioral engineering I'd add talking animals. To test the effectiveness I'd observe the children at play. If they mimicked what they saw on the training monitor during play with other children I'd know training was progressing well.

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As the children grow they'll interact with each other more during play. I'd introduce weapons of war with which they can become acclimated. The training monitor will now show more human beings. The violence will become slightly more realistic. The importance of technology for superior fire power will be demonstrated on the training monitor as the "good guys" kill "the bad guys" regardless of numbers using this superior fire power. This will be reinforced during play with automatic toy weapons. Hand to hand fighting will also be introduced on the training monitor at this time. Mimicking of the activities demonstrated on the training monitor during "play" will be considered a sign of positive behavior integration.

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Anomalies in training can be expected. For minor anomalies corporal punishment can be used. Thus demonstrating to the child violence can be used to control another human being. If corporal punishment doesn't show positive results drugs and intense therapy may get the child back into a more controlled aggressive behavior needed for the society's combative needs. In extreme cases the child will be removed from the home and placed in a detention area with other children with training anomalies.

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Further growth and maturity of the now young teenager will require another type of training system allowing for interaction between the system and the subject. Due to successful desensitization, this system can now have highly realistic violence and demonstrate the results of this violence. In order to continue to reinforce violence as a positive activity a scoring system based on the violent activity performed by the subject will be used. As part of the reward the subject will be allowed to continue "playing". The system will allow for competition between subjects utilizing the same reward system.

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The now almost adult is ready for entry into the society's military. Because of the large number of pretrained applicants testing may be used to select only the best young adult subjects. This will unfortunately lead to a large number of subjects with no official release for their training. This will be a problem for the society. More detention areas will need to be ready as the program grows in effectiveness. Some subjects will even form their own militia and battle each other as they've been trained to do.

Obviously a society such as this would end up destroying itself if the program wasn't discontinued. Thankfully, this is a fictitious example....

About the Author

Hunter Jan and Rick  at their favorite restaurant the Ocean Terrace
 

J. Richard Kirkham is a dual certified teacher and martial arts instructor. He has expertise in alternative teaching methods and positive reinforcement methodology. He's written several books in the printable electronic format and has made downloadable videos and DVDs. He currently resides in Honolulu with his wife Jan and son Hunter. Feel free to visit Mr. Kirkham's website at http://KirkhamsEbooks.com or you may email him at help@kirkhamsebooks.com Copyright all rights reserved.

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