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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Talk about asymmetrical battlefield.... when “they'll head for the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas this time”.

Guess where most of the vigilant civilian patriot arms are. Yep, in the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas.

Nobama, the left nor the blacks may not give a flying f____ about your life, but they damn sure have a strong affinity toward their own. Any riots will be in Da Hood or urban stos wid da big screens and lickur fo free, because that is where they will be mostly “handled” by gubmint forces and will have significantly less opportunity to meet their maker.

84 posted on 04/09/2012 7:01:02 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: X-spurt
Nobama, the left nor the blacks may not give a flying f____ about your life, but they damn sure have a strong affinity toward their own.

I have a theory about the psychology of the average psycopath thug, which I will hereby elucidate if you don't mind.

A thug, like everyone, has a certain scale of values; on this scale he places his own life and also the life of others that he encounters.

Now there are two peculiarities about the psychopath's scale of values:

1. The psycho's scale of values is inverted, in the sense that he wishes to destroy the things that he estimates to be of greatest value to society or humanity. In effect, he hates them and wishes them harm.

2. He counts his life cheap compared to the lives of others. With the inversion of his values and priorities, this means that he will seek to destroy more valuable lives before his own.

Let us look at this set of valuations from a game theory standpoint, in the case where the thug is about to commit a murder. Keep in mind that by my theory, the murder will be committed against someone whom the thug places higher on the scale of values than his own.

Here are the possible outcomes of the murder or attempted murder, in decreasing scale of desirability from the thug's perspective:

1. He does the murder, is detected, and goes through the justice system but nevertheless gets off scot free or nearly so.

This is the overall greatest gain, because he has rubbed out a life of more value to society than his own, preserved his own life in the process, and caused expense, grief, and degradation of the social order in the process.

2. He does the murder, but is not caught. Still, society is down one positive life, and an existing negative one (his own) is preserved.

3. He does the murder, but is killed in the process. He is still satisfied, because society is down one positive life and one negative one of much less value. Still a net loss for society.

4. He does the murder, is caught, and given a heavy penalty--death or life in prison. Still a net loss to society in the loss of a valuable life, and the costs it has to incur in catching, prosecuting, and punishing him.

5. He attempts murder but fails; he is caught and punished. Now, he doesn't even have the elimination of a positive life to show for his crime, but at least he has caused all the costs to society of catching and punishing him.

6. He attempts murder, failing, and is killed on the spot himself. There is no loss of a positive life, little police/court/prison cost to society, and a negative life (his own) is taken off the books.

It is only in this last scenario that the psychopath truly loses, according to his own scale of values.

114 posted on 04/09/2012 9:00:21 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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