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hockeybabe89 posted...

When a bomb is about to explode and kill a bunch of people you scream "Run! Get the fuck out! There's a bomb!", not consider the ineffectiveness of fear tactics and form a measured and personalized response that will present people with the benefits of running away.

I tell you fear doesn't always work and you respond with "but fear!!!"

You're refusing to get it. You SEE that it's not working and yet you insist that it will. You have never convinced anyone on this board or elsewhere with this tactic and yet it seems to be your only play.

If you see that people are not running away from the bomb when you yell bomb, then YES you must do something different at that point.

The bomb analogy is overly reductive, but let's complicate it to make it more accurate. Some people in the room love bombs and wanna die, some don't believe there's a bomb at all, some are paralyzed by the prospect of death, but most believe the room is locked and there's no way out whether they stay or go, or that they can't get enough people to pull the heavy door with them. People have been promised that they'd be saved from previous bombs, but they weren't. The people who are supposed to save them are not promising them complete safety from the bomb, only that it'll take only an arm or leg off, rather than killing them outright. Some people want to know why they're in a room with a bomb and how they can prevent that from happening in the future.

I could go on.

In that circumstance, you can't expect yelling run alone to be effective. That's far closer to the circumstance we're in.