"Only people who think they can fight a chimp think that unarmed is an indication of not dangerous."
100%. Very few people are even able to imagine how it would feel to be in a situation where you genuinely think your life is at risk. Or even just that the person you're facing seriously intends to hurt you. So they imagine they'd be as le…
"Only people who think they can fight a chimp think that unarmed is an indication of not dangerous."
100%. Very few people are even able to imagine how it would feel to be in a situation where you genuinely think your life is at risk. Or even just that the person you're facing seriously intends to hurt you. So they imagine they'd be as level headed as they feel when they're sitting behind a computer judging somebody else who was in fight or flight mode.
As with Penny, if you choose to take action you have to be willing to face the consequences. I don't believe for a second that he meant to kill Neely, but he did. And that has consequences. Same with the officer. If you choose to join the police you're putting yourself in harm's way. You have to be ready to deal with the consequences of your decisions in those situations.
But it's so naive to argue that nobody should have felt threatened unless Neely had started physically attacking people. Or that in the heat of the moment, mistakes aren't almost guaranteed to be made. That's why everything should be done to prevent getting to the heat of the moment.
"Only people who think they can fight a chimp think that unarmed is an indication of not dangerous."
100%. Very few people are even able to imagine how it would feel to be in a situation where you genuinely think your life is at risk. Or even just that the person you're facing seriously intends to hurt you. So they imagine they'd be as level headed as they feel when they're sitting behind a computer judging somebody else who was in fight or flight mode.
As with Penny, if you choose to take action you have to be willing to face the consequences. I don't believe for a second that he meant to kill Neely, but he did. And that has consequences. Same with the officer. If you choose to join the police you're putting yourself in harm's way. You have to be ready to deal with the consequences of your decisions in those situations.
But it's so naive to argue that nobody should have felt threatened unless Neely had started physically attacking people. Or that in the heat of the moment, mistakes aren't almost guaranteed to be made. That's why everything should be done to prevent getting to the heat of the moment.
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭."
Words to live by.