Endless Scenarios

[David Armstrong]

The safe decision is to be passive to the wrong-doers. If you do make that stand, then the consequences can vary up to and including death.

Exactly, and a good way to put it. The macro analysis gives us the most likley outcome for each of us, thus giving the best default position. The micro analysis gives us a personal analysis within the larger "compliance gives the best odds" umbrella, helping to decide if there is some reason to go against the odds and how that can change the outcome for us.

Mr. Goetz spent some time in jail with a lot of publicity around the incident and had trouble obtaining employment thereafter. Many other people who have stood up to muggers and wrong-doers had a fate worse then jail.

Right. That is why I like to talk about these situations in the context of loss of resources instead of posturing and such. Which of course gets us back to the thrust of the post, where some try to look at scenarios in a way that pumps up their (usually) imagined sense of warriordom, while others suggest looking at them from a practical position. Thus the conflict.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

It is what it is. You can't frequent one of these places and not know what's coming after you post. I tend to ignore the junk, and appreciate the other stuff I pick up.

That's pretty much key in any forum.