Oh, so the Marine who is an Afghanistan veteran and MOH recipient who objected to BAE selling sophisticated night vision weapon sights to Pakistan which trains and equips the Taliban should be medicated?
A 2-minute risk assessment of crowds produces a red outcome for many situations. Perhaps in your analysis shopping is considered a circle-X objective?
I’ve got news for you: just about everyone who has spent time in a combat zone is aprehensive of crowds. Yet this is something exceptional to you? FYI crowds have been referred to as Mortar Magnets since before the Civil War. Whether in war or psycho-infested societies crowds are the target of murderers.
Reasoning based upon experience, risk and acceptable outcome used to qualify as sound judgement.
Oh, so the Marine who is an Afghanistan veteran and MOH recipient who objected to BAE selling sophisticated night vision weapon sights to Pakistan which trains and equips the Taliban should be medicated?
I did not say the Marine should be medicated. What I said is that it is very possible that what the company said--that his perception has been skewed--is correct.
Do I know that this company is making weapon sights for sale to the Taliban? No.
Do I know that the Marine is having problems with alcohol, which could very well be a consequence of untreated PTSD? No.
But what I do know is that there is a truth somewhere, which probably does not correspond exactly to the stories of either side. And, most likely, the stories on each side both contain elements of the truth.
Being paranoid of all crowds, regardless of circumstances, is not normal behavior. But there are times when it is perfectly appropriate to be wary. It is all circumstancial.