Dudley Henriques wrote:

Is there REALLY a humanized side to killing? Even soldiers, and this
would include every one I've ever known, when they come back from combat
that has involved killing, (and I mean killing the enemy not civilians)
are never quite the same again. All have suffered some form of
dehumanization process.



Actually the dehumanization comes before that and in a different way:

In order to not go crazy the first thing a lot (most? all?) soldiers do is
dehumanize the enemy.