Blindfolding condemned victims also reduces the executioner’s stress

Evidence

Milgram added: “The manifest function of allowing the victim of a firing squad to be blindfolded is to make the occasion less stressful for him, but it may also serve a latent function of reducing the stress of the executioner.” And “Many expressions of language refer to the discomfort or inhibitions that arise in face-to-face attack. It is often said that it is easier to criticize a man ‘behind his back’ than to confront him directly.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 965

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s theme of drone interfaces creating moral buffers for operators. — connects to: Removing combat exposure reduces soldiers to mere executioners — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 367; Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614; Killing with a graphic view is reframed as an act of courage — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 362

Related

• Removing combat exposure reduces soldiers to mere executioners (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614
• Killing with a graphic view is reframed as an act of courage #complicates (0.45) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 362