spree8 wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:spree8 wrote:“Damn, I wish the kid ran away to preserve a chance at survival instead of trying to fight a bunch of guys with guns”
“Zomg you’re victim blaming! How dare you!”
Seriously, stfu and grow some brain cells... fuq’n idiots on the internet man. I swear
This is a sensitive subject for many especially those who have dealt with police brutality and is gut-retching crime.
Having said that, from a strictly scientific perspective, police will tell people who are faced with a gun-toting assailant that their best chance is to run away.
I once watched a seminar on PBS-TV given by a former Chicago police detective. Bittenbinder was his name. He had a walrus mustache. He said that the chance of him the criminal of actually pulling the trigger is 50/50. Then the chance of actually hitting you at 50/50. Then the chance of killing you at 50/50.
So his point is that by running away you’ve probably reduced your chances of getting killed from 100% to 12.5%.
But that’s in a vacuum and you have have planned that ahead of time most likely after having already been a victim who was lucky enough to escape unharmed.
I would not expect a most people to have that in their mind while going out for a nice relaxing jog.
So there is truth to what you say, but this is the wrong time to push that point.
Yea the thing is tho that I didn’t push the point... 1 poster made me defend it, then another, and another, and so on to where I’m just repeating myself in these responses. I’m like wtf did I even do lol. Ask a logical question? Kinda pathetic to try to crucify someone for that... in this day n age when people wanna be taken seriously on important issues, there’s way too much whining and attacking the same side for dumb stuff like that... people should save their energy for the real villains.
You can’t really censor people for that either tho. If people bring some analytical thought to the topic in that regard, who knows if someone might be in a similar situation one day and maybe remember having that conversation and take a different action themselves that might turn out better for them?
Just sayin that this outrage culture needs to chill the hell out a bit. People try too hard to be offended.
It's an emotional subject. It's not that people are trying to be offended. They ARE offended. I'm outraged. I still can't get myself to watch another one of these videos. This is a pattern that proves how a large swath of our society doesn't care or respect the lives of black people to the point where they hunt them down for no reason and murder them even though they aren't a threat. If you can't get outraged at that, then maybe you have to check your heart.
Dude, I tried to help you out earlier and now you're digging yourself another hole. Just shut down the computer for the evening and move on.
