Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24463013-20150621083226/@comment-4948848-20150626054708

Shadow at Morning wrote: They'd minimize fatalities. That's for places like Beacon (and the initiation wasn't really that hard, and is probably mostly formality). You've got to be able to fuck up in safety while you're learning. That is the key challenge is making training safe enough to be able to mess up and learn but dangerous enough to punish stupidity and carelessness. You also need to condition them to accept  on a certain level the horrors of injury and death in battle with out breaking down.