Compliance is certainly an option (continuing the thread hijack), but I don’t believe it’s a good one and here’s why:
Trusting an armed robber to have your best interests at heart, in other words, to be willing to leave a live witness behind him rather than a dead victim, is irrational. To quote Nessus, “Such trust in another is insane”. That’s my opinion. People have survived by being compliant. But not all of them.
Among the general population, somewhere between 1% and 2% are psychopaths. I read that somewhere, so it must be true.
Among the armed robber population, that percentage is significantly higher. That’s just a guess, but I think it’s a reasonable one.
When you want a Hershey’s Kiss, you have to take off the little foil wrapper. When you get it off, what do you do with it? You throw it away. Why? Because it has no value.
To millions of psychopaths in this country, you’re that little foil wrapper. You’re holding what they want. Once they have it, you have no value. To them, killing you is like throwing away a candy wrapper. They don’t think twice about it.
Now the question is, are you facing a psychopath? How can you tell?
Ted Bundy seemed like a nice guy. So did Al Bundy. Ted was a psychopath and Al was just a sociopath. Personally, I wouldn’t trust either of them in a dark parking lot with a knife. In the situation presented by the OP, I’d shoot either one of them. I wouldn’t shoot the partner, though, assuming he gave up or ran away.
Anyone who wants to trust an armed robber is welcome to do so.
Just remember, there may be a Darwin Award waiting with your name on it.
Trusting an armed robber to have your best interests at heart, in other words, to be willing to leave a live witness behind him rather than a dead victim, is irrational. To quote Nessus, “Such trust in another is insane”. That’s my opinion. People have survived by being compliant. But not all of them.
Among the general population, somewhere between 1% and 2% are psychopaths. I read that somewhere, so it must be true.
Among the armed robber population, that percentage is significantly higher. That’s just a guess, but I think it’s a reasonable one.
When you want a Hershey’s Kiss, you have to take off the little foil wrapper. When you get it off, what do you do with it? You throw it away. Why? Because it has no value.
To millions of psychopaths in this country, you’re that little foil wrapper. You’re holding what they want. Once they have it, you have no value. To them, killing you is like throwing away a candy wrapper. They don’t think twice about it.
Now the question is, are you facing a psychopath? How can you tell?
Ted Bundy seemed like a nice guy. So did Al Bundy. Ted was a psychopath and Al was just a sociopath. Personally, I wouldn’t trust either of them in a dark parking lot with a knife. In the situation presented by the OP, I’d shoot either one of them. I wouldn’t shoot the partner, though, assuming he gave up or ran away.
Anyone who wants to trust an armed robber is welcome to do so.
Just remember, there may be a Darwin Award waiting with your name on it.