Scrubs and killin'

Hey Scrubs, you're a comedy!
Be funny.
Also, don't be depressing.
Do we really need another medical drama?

I recently read a back issue of Rolling Stone because Jack Bauer was on the cover. The article following the cover article was called "The Killing Factory" by Jeff Teitz. Wow, what a fucking retard. Here's a link to a blog that has it scanned in.

The article is about how boot camp prepares recruits to actually kill another human being. Should be an interesting article but it makes me want to punch thanks to the first page.

Here the writer explains to us that killing is unnatural and humans find it difficult to do. If he just left it here I wouldn't have minded. However he proves his point by talking about how humans were really opposed to killing each other in history. WTF?

He tells us that "Our ancestors only killed each other in extreme or ritualized circumstances."

Um...no. Seems like the whole noble savage idea we all hate so much. OK, humans in the small band stage. You're out looking for berries and shit. You meet someone not in your band of closely related folk that's not a chick. Fightin' and killin' time!
Also, I love the work on prehistoric tribespeople, like in New Guinea. Yeah, they're really opposed to killing each other [/sarcasm]. "What happened to your first husband miss? Killed in a raid on another tribes village, I see. OK, 2nd husband? Killed during a raid on your village by another tribe. OK, 3rd husband? Killed while hunting near another tribes village. Right-o.
1st son? Killed by rival. Sure. 2nd son?..."

Also, Jeff tells us that Visigoths and other barbarian tribes delivered "a lot of slashing blows but shrank from stabbing, because stabbng kills."
Huh?

Napoleon refused to go to war unless he had an artillery advantage because his soldiers were so reluctant to kill. Yeah, it has nothing to do with artillery's effectiveness.

Also, soldiers obviously intentionally missed in the civil war because they were often 100 yards away from each other and should have wiped each other out if they were actually aiming.

What a fucking tool.

This is part of a huge list of articles I've been disgusted by. More crappy mistakes, crappy writing, crappy research, etc. written by cocky, arrogant assholes.
I emailed the Evil Doctor asking if journalists are getting dumber or am I just noticing it more?

Also, I just read over this post and it's really poorly written.