Compare “Suspicious minds in danger? The role of meaning in processing war, peacekeeping experiences, and "nationalism, internationalism, and the perceived irrelevance of the UN: mediators of the relationships between authoritarianism and support for military aggression in the framework of the war against terrorism” and how many victims are too many? Proportional Reasoning in Valuing Military and Civilian LivesWar is one of the unfortunate constants of human history, fought for a variety of reasons. One must wonder to what extent human beings can dehumanize the enemy or their own soldiers with simple propaganda. To what extent can distress and suspicion lead to soldiers having difficulty readjusting to normal life? Is it easy to view one's own country as the ultimate moral good, and all means of showing it are legitimate, and anyone who speaks out is irrelevant? There are studies on this, but there are questions about how well they have been done and how they compare to each other. The review “Suspicious Minds at Risk? The Role of Meaning in Processing War and Peacekeeping Experiences', sought to correlate age, meaning as intelligibility, perceived threat, self-importance, intrusion/avoidance with quality of life . (Shok et al. 2011). They hypothesized that age and perceived threat have a positive correlation with meaning as comprehensibility and meaning as personal meaning and that these two elements in turn have a positive correlation with quality of life and a negative correlation with intrusion/avoidance. It was also hypothesized that perceived threat had a positive correlation with intrusion/avoidance, which had a negative correlation with quality of life. (Shok et al. 2011) This was a cross-sectional correlational study, which used Dutch veterans who had been ...... middle of paper ...... men confronted with war and their state of mind before it. , J. and Dood, T. L. (2009). How many victims are too many? Proportional reasoning in the evaluation of military and civilian lives. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(11), 2541-2569. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00537.xCrowson, H. (2009). Nationalism, internationalism, and the UN's perceived irrelevant mediators in the relationship between authoritarianism and support for military aggression in the war on terrorism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(5), 1137-1162. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2009.00475.xSchok, M. L., Kleber, R. J., Lensvelt-Mulders, G. M., Elands, M., & Weerts, J. (2011). Suspicious spirits in danger? The role of meaning in processing experiences of war and peacekeeping. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41(1), 61-81. doi:10.1111/j.1559 1816.2010.00702.x