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[Tirion]

Don't most players go out of their way to raise morale in a fort?

The "doesn't really care about anything anymore" tag is useful for preventing big mood swings.  Basically, it makes a dwarf who just watched his wife get zombified, kill his kids and his pets, then get her head smashed in say "meh" and move on instead of starting a tantrum spiral.  Ironically, traumatizing the hell out of your dwarves makes them MORE mentally stable.

According to the list I linked previously, traumatized dwarves still get full happy thoughts, only the traumatic bad thoughts have a lessened effect. So, it does lessen the effect a few popular dwarf's death has on the fortress, but miasma, hunger, thirst, drafting and releasing from duty, vermin, clothing issues and nobility related problems are still there at full strenght.

[jellsprout]

Being attacked by the dead counts as a tragic event. So being stuck with some resurrecting zombies, either through an Evil biome or through necromancers, will eventually have the soldiers stop caring about anything anymore. As an additional bonus, this also trains their combat skills.

[Urist McLaptop]

Lol I lo e this game.my parents have no idea what sickos. (I admire said sickos like me) like me can accomplish in this game lol.

[Loud Whispers]

Lol I lo e this game.my parents have no idea what sickos. (I admire said sickos like me) like me can accomplish in this game lol.

I don't consider myself a sicko when I desensitize my Dwarves; the alternative here IS a spiral of insanity and bloodshed. The lesser of two evils; dead puppies or dead Dwarves.

[Seraphim342]

We're sickos, but usually very practical sickos.  Madness is a tool like any other. 

[CaptApollo12]

Im really confuzed. Could someone answer me this?
A Dwarf is traumatized by: (Y/N)
Civ Kills another Fellow Civ
Civ Kills non-civ Sentient
Civ Kills non-civ animal(Hunting)
Civ Witness Fellow Civ death
Civ Witness Sentient non-civ death(gobbo)
Civ Witness Non-civ animal death
Military Kills another Fellow Civ member
Military Kills non-civ Sentient
Military Kills non-civ animal
Military Witness Fellow Civ-member death
Military Witness Sentient non-civ death(gobbo)
Military Witness Non-civ animal death

[jellsprout]

Im really confuzed. Could someone answer me this?
A Dwarf is traumatized by: (Y/N)
Civ Kills another Fellow Civ
Civ Kills non-civ Sentient
Civ Kills non-civ animal(Hunting)
Civ Witness Fellow Civ death
Civ Witness Sentient non-civ death(gobbo)
Civ Witness Non-civ animal death
Military Kills another Fellow Civ member
Military Kills non-civ Sentient
Military Kills non-civ animal
Military Witness Fellow Civ-member death
Military Witness Sentient non-civ death(gobbo)
Military Witness Non-civ animal death

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:List_of_Dwarven_Thoughts
Any thought with the Tragedy note desensitizes dwarves.

[Tirion]

Also, as far as I know, "Has witnessed death" thought only comes from seeing fellow dwarves die. So the puppy chute is completely useless, unless they are some dwarf's pets. Kittens work better -or worse: they adopt dwarves... but only those who like them. Out of 100 dwarves and 100 kittens, a few dwarves will be owned by the majority of the kittens. Those dwarves will go mad from losing all their pets at once.

Standard operating procedure in my desensitizing projects is to create a dogsplosion, train them as war dogs, and assign them to happy dwarves. Then pasture them over retracting spikes in a room surrounded by windows, in the middle of my dining hall so the bodies are found. Following spiky death, the dogs are left to rot to create the additional tragic thought of having a pet's corpse rotting. Pets brought by migrants get the same treatment, unless they are something I'd like to breed. It gets difficult to track how many pets a dwarf has, as dead pets are still shown in the relations screen of the units.

[Urist McLaptop]

I lovethis game

[CaptApollo12]

Well then I was very confused. After wieghing the pros and cons of each trauma thought I have come up with a design:

ENTRANCE TO FORT
FORTIFICATIONS
Glass windows {This is for catching sneaking kobalds}
MEETING AREA
...tables, chairs, etc...
Glass windows {The less things that can shoot my dwarves from anywhere the better+roomvalue
FORTIFICATIONS
UPRIGHT SPIKES
WALL

I will set up a meeting area that will take individual migrant dwarves and kill them within sight of my dwarves. Then after my dwarves are sufficiently traumatized I will atom smash the left over migrants and/or let them into my fort. I would only let them in if I feel like they are not going to tantrum because their mom, dad, uncle, brother, son, etc were killed.
I assume the thoughts stack right? Like i cant just kill a 30 migrant wave next to my starting 7 without faceing a tantrum spiral?