Die Judicii wrote:This may well NOT be along the precise bent of the OP but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
There was one reply in particular that touched on the act of stopping a beating heart, which prompted this,, my reply.
I have been an active hunter and shooter for 52 years.
Throughout those years I have often wondered about my feelings ( or lack thereof ) when I squeeze the trigger and make something live suddenly dead.
I feel absolutely nothing.
No sadness, no jubilation, no excitement.
It's simply a matter of fact thing.
Am I the only one that is like this ? or,,,,,,, is something wrong with me ?
Nothing at all wrong with you, you sound normal to me.
We are predators, it is what we do, a few decades of ignoring this does not change the thousands of years of evolution.