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U.S. hospitals serve people of all classes; people with low impulse control are positively correlated with the criminal classes; people with low impulse control
by wtbob 10y ago
U.S. hospitals serve people of all classes; people with low impulse control are positively correlated with the criminal classes; people with low impulse control are more likely to behave impulsively when given bad news. It's unfortunate, but true.
I have a few acquaintances who work in hospitals; it's quite amazing how the people they see in the course of their work differ from those I encounter in the course of mine own.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoTo put it even more simply: people under stress sometimes do unwise things, and little is more stressful than the first throes of grief. Planning for this is how you protect them from the potential consequences of their own grief-stricken rage.
- in_cahoots 10y agoRather than call the families of homicide victims members of the 'criminal classes', perhaps you should consider the inordinate amounts of stress they are under. Your acquaintances see people at the worst moments of their lives; hopefully we can all be granted a little leeway in that situation.