The grinding of the dead enemy may have been common in some annals of time, but already in the 7th Century BC, it is ultimately Homer for a superseded behavior. He describes the behavior of the strongest and most heroic of the Greeks against Troy in Il. XXIV 12 ff this:
"The morning found him (Achilles) as soon as they appeared and the sea coast and outshone. If he then the nimble horses harnessed to the wagon, he tied the Hector at the seat back for grinding, three times he then pulled him to the grave of Menoitossohnes, rested again in the tent and let the others lie outside on the front stretch in the dust. Meanwhile, Apollo meets protected from any abuse the body of mercy ... "(After the translation of rupees).
the body to treat the slain enemy as a trophy, but is not an atavism, but unfortunately also part of today's warfare. For a long time the success of a military operation in the United States is measured by accurately identified the number of fallen enemies, the Bodycounting.
For counting was apparently also the corpse of a fallen Vietnamese linked to an armored personnel carriers, to bring them sustain in court, because otherwise, so the tank dirty would have.
How different is the behavior of the mob in Somalia to evaluate, as the wild become completely misses his fury on a dead pilot of a U.S. helicopter. No Bodycounting justify this action, it is again thrown down to the level of archetype.
will again be held in Afghanistan Bodycounting? Then again this is just culturally superior to! As a critic of the Criminal Code was in the 19th Century: "Whether it is an affair of honor or a nasty knife fight determines only the length of the used cutting weapons."
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