“Thus, the uninjured student is presenting us with his “belief” like this —
(1) Waleed makes no movement; I will be killed.
(2) Waleed makes movement; my life is saved.”
Completely wrong ... allow me to correct
(1) If Waleed had made no movement I would have been killed
(2) Waleed made a movement - my life was saved
Your version presumes that he is making the statement during the events, which is absurd.
You said — “Completely wrong ... allow me to correct
(1) If Waleed had made no movement I would have been killed
(2) Waleed made a movement - my life was saved”
And looking at the following — you’ll notice that I put this as the student’s “belief” in the last post —
(1) Waleed makes no movement; I will be killed.
(2) Waleed makes movement; my life is saved.”
Yeah, it sounds like that is “his belief” all right. That’s exactly what I said was his belief. And now what we do is analyze his *belief* with the “facts” of the matter, and we see where his belief is wrong...
Let’s add the “fact” here and look at that once more —
(1) If Waleed had made no movement I would have been killed
(2) Waleed made a movement - my life was saved because I played dead
Now, simply by adding the one relevant fact, which was a fact given to us by this very same uninjured student. We see where his belief is totally unfounded.
In line two, we see that the “operative statement” is simply “my life was saved because I played dead.”
And from that, we see that line 1 is simply an “added belief” to give the student some sense of meaning to the senseless death next to him.
The student is surely affected as all other traumatic victims are affected in these situations and is dealing with guilt at being alive and the senseless death right next to his own body, while he was playing dead.
And in an effort to “make sense” of it all (as we people attempting to do) — this student assigns a “belief” to a senseless death.
But, as we see, it was simply the students own “feigning death” that saved his life.
Waleed’s death was merely a senseless death. His flips or flops or movements merely contributed to being shot by the killer again.
Regards,
Star Traveler