Smapti, the man was a former soldier with extensive military training and practical experience to draw on in that time of stress. Those of us without Horton’s particular work history do not have the background to switch into compliance mode so easily. No, even those of us who know intellectually what script to follow, because without at least basic training, our fight or flight response will kick in.
“Lie still and don’t make any sudden movements” is hardly a skillset that requires elite military conditioning to acquire.
Awaking from a sound sleep to hear strangers barking orders at you as they invade your home? Yes, actually that does call for a bit of a learning curve.
Horseshit. The author even explains it.
Of course it does. Only a fuckhead would imagine a different story.
Which seems to be something people have been saying for thousands of posts.
It’s not the police who are in the wrong if that’s what’s happening.
No, just a bit of self-preservation instinct to realize that you in your half-asleep and undressed state are not going to be able to fight off a band of armed intruders and it is in your best interest to lie still and present no threat.
Of course, as we seem to be learning, self-preservation seems to be secondary to “But MY FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!” in these parts.
I feel like you don’t actually understand what the term self-preservation instinct actually means. Lying still and presenting no threat does not come under the heading of fight or flight, so instinct has nothing to do with it.
Personally, I don’t care who you are, you suddenly shout me awake and I’ll have bitten your nuts clean off before my brain has even shifted out of “whuuu ?!” gear.
That’s why I never joined the Army.
Let’s not ignore the fact that hey went all Seal Team Six over a report of a fucking squatter.
Smapti once read a book about humans and now thinks that he understands us.
Do you watch or have you read Game of Thrones?
Tell me your thoughts about Joffrey.
Clean-cut, law-abiding and respectable fellow. He’s only forced to act like a giant cock all day long because people just won’t do everything he lawfully orders and there’s an endemic culture of “fuck the King” in Westeros.
Now, that Robb Stark, he’s a bad sort. He should not have rebelled when his dad’s head got chopped off on a whim of the King, because that is against the law you see. That makes him a Criminal ™ who deserves anything that might happen to him. Next thing you’ll say that the Red Wedding was an example of royal brutality :rolleyes:. Typical of you lawless sorts.
Fork to my pit thread on corruption at the New York Police Department and its links to the crime tracking system, CompStat. Institutionalized Controversial Encounters: NYPD corruption. Includes link to 538 / ESPN 18 min documentary, “Crime by the Numbers”.
I’ve lost friends and relatives who felt “freedom” was an important enough concept to fight over. Asshole.
Can anyone parse what faulty subroutine the bot has stumbed into? Its conclusion makes no sense, even by the standards of the poorly-programmed bots in this thread. It seems like a stuck logic level, maybe a shorted input to an OR-gate, or one of those if (foo = TRUE) errors in C programming.
If it really is human, I hope it’s donating its brain to science. It doesn’t seem like bloated amygdala, so what pathology is it?
In response to his training, not in response to anything the cops said - they weren’t talking to him. They were treating him as a dangerous enemy, not as a citizen who might or might not be in the wrong place. And he was a suspect of squatting, not of making nitro.
While I accept that’s easy for you to say, it’s a bit more problematic if you’re a non-broken member of a species that evolved the Fight or Flight response to threatening situations.
I watched the first episode and part of the second. I stopped and haven’t come back to it because I found all the characters who’d been presented up to that point to be horrible people and I didn’t care about what happened to any of them.
“Fight or flight” is only a valid response to danger if you can do either of those things. When you’re half-asleep in your underwear and armed police are raiding your home, you can neither fight nor flee; thus the correct response from someone who wishes to continue living is to submit.
I’ve read that entire article three times and I can’t find a single detail about what he was arrested for or how he died - just a bunch of vague platitudes about how “It’s just like Mississippi in 1964!” or “It happened the day after something else in another state!” Got an actual news article on this story?