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Sinergy -> RE: Threat to world peace??????? (1/26/2007 5:31:50 PM)
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"My point in mentioning Katrina in the first place was that it was an example of Anarchy in action. Its horrible and people beg for someone to pick up a stick and restore order."
Because they're not properly trained to restore order themselves.
That's the lesson. DO NOT LOOK FOR HELP. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
You know, that's the lesson of 9/11, too. The people who got OUT of the WTC after the initial strikes? They did NOT listen to their bosses, who told them "It's ok, just go back to work". The SURVIVORS just picked up and got the hell out.
I was reading an article on this in Psychology Today a year or two ago. Panic reactions generally result in bad outcomes in the modern world, but in the case of the WTC, those people who panicked survived.
Sinergy
Sinergy:
I think you are doing the suvivors of that incident an injustice to characterize their actions to leave a burning building against their bosses orders as panic. To think and act creatively in a stressful situation is not panic.
thompson
From the anecdotal accounts of their actions given to their therapists and friends, they themselves described their actions as panic.
I am simply relaying an article in a magazine without personal judgement.
Sinergy
Sinergy:
You know or should know that a persons conversations with their therapist are confidential.
As a grad student you should also know the value of anecdotal data.
thompson
I am aware of both of these things, thompson.
However, in a statistical study of a population of, say 5400 people, and 1000 of them panic and run away, and 540 of the ones who panic survive, and 0 of the ones who didnt panic dont survive, a claim can be made in that situation that panicking is a positive trait to continued survival.
If the 540 who survived tell the interviewer that they panicked...
Sinergy
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