Service members, especially those higher in rank, routinely talk
about unit members as "my soldiers," "my Marines," "my sailors."
e family members, their own children, of sorts, who have
are
They
been entrusted to them. To fall short of unconditional care is
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as a kind of perfidy, a failure to be faithful. Survivor
on the unconscious thought that luck is part of a zero-sum
To have good luck is to deprive another of it. The anguish of
guilt, its sheer pain, is a way of sharing some of the ill fate. It is a
form of empathic distress.
experienced
guilt piles
game.
hilosophers have looked to other torme