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Your children are starving. You can (a) run away and watch them starve or (b) rush the compound and hope to get some food. Threats -- and demonstrations -- of
by saalweachter 7y ago
Your children are starving.
You can (a) run away and watch them starve or (b) rush the compound and hope to get some food.
Threats -- and demonstrations -- of violence are only reliable if the person being threatened has something to lose.
- cameronbrown 7y agoIf you die then you can't help them anymore.
- saalweachter 7y agoIf you die, you don't have to watch them starve to death next week. If there's a 90% chance you die storming the compound, a 10% chance you survive storming the compound and obtain food and a 100% chance you die if you don't find food soon, why wouldn't you take the chance at survival?
- cameronbrown 7y agoBecause there may be other opportunities out there. If you leave, there may only be 5% chance you'll find other resources to survive. If you die there's 100% chance your kids will die.
- whatshisface 7y ago>Threats -- and demonstrations -- of violence are only reliable if the person being threatened has something to lose. I'm not convinced that people would be rational about their prospects if they were being shot at.