He had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.

Grace Crandall
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When you are faced with an enemy, you have to find a way to distance yourself from them. When you are in combat, your enemies are always close by. You can’t run away from them because they are always following you. You have to bring them into the same space as you so that they become human.

The idea of dehumanization is not something that can be done through physical distance, but rather psychological distance. We cannot build a wall around the enemy and say, “These are our terms. You must abide by them or else…” Instead, we have to maintain psychological distance so that the enemy is no longer an enemy, but rather an idea that bleeds when stabbed.

Source: Ashes

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