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To: TFMcGuire

You are not well educated.

The default, biological instinct is to move away from danger. It requires training, by and large to get the vast majority of men to move towards danger.

By the way, character and courage (defined as acting against ones baser instinct) is a learned trait, and as militaries, and elite moral institutions know, can be taught.


122 posted on 11/29/2008 2:10:52 PM PST by Leisler ("Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. " Lenin)
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To: Leisler

“You are not well educated.”

You are not educated in the essences which make a man a manor, or,for that matter, a human a human..

It requires no training for two men to rush into a burning school bus and rescue the trapped children.

It requires no training to grab a weapon and go to the aid of the teenage girl babysitting next door when yo see a gang of hoods breaking down her door.

It takes basic humanity my friend-—and our newspoopers recount examples of it every day.

You don’t have to have military training to do what needs to be done in an emergency. You simply need heart.

In this case, even the photographer observed, “They ware sitting Ducks.”


127 posted on 11/29/2008 2:22:07 PM PST by TFMcGuire (Life is tough. It is even tougher if you are stupid--John Wayne)
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To: Leisler
The default, biological instinct is to move away from danger.

Not at all. I was reading about the men who came through a scorched area and happened across a bird. Incinerated, but underneath it's wings were live unharmed chicks.

It's called "fight or flight".Many different variables determine outcomes.

Clint Eastwood captured some good righteous anger that is in our instinct.

And Alvin York struggled with this in real life.

135 posted on 11/29/2008 2:43:55 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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