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What would you do in these situations?
abbafandr:
1 As long as I am not being personally threatened, would try to avoid confrontation.
2 Being "told" to get in the vehicle? How am I being told, at gun point or them just saying for me to get in?
3 Would depend.
abbafandr:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on October 29, 2013, 03:15:04 PM ---The number of "it depends" answers to MissMichella's questions got me to thinking about some of the other answers to questions like that I've seen over time, which got me to do a bit of writing about "what if" questions.
http://precisionresponse.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/what-would-you-do-if/
I really like the fact that so far, pretty much everyone's answer has included a lot of "it depends." That is not sarcasm---"it depends" IS a good answer to those questions.
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Good article, like always. I know I'm always looking around and trying to decide what I would do in different situations. It kinda drives the wife crazy so I don't mention it to her much ;)
MissMichella:
I suppose I should have come up with more specific scenarios :(
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: MissMichella on October 30, 2013, 12:16:50 AM ---I suppose I should have come up with more specific scenarios :(
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That probably wouldn't have helped this crowd. :laugh:
You could have been a LOT more descriptive and we would still have been saying "It depends". So many variables that could only be answered by living it, and hopefully, through it.
Fly
JTH:
--- Quote from: MissMichella on October 30, 2013, 12:16:50 AM ---I suppose I should have come up with more specific scenarios :(
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Something to ask might be:
Given a situation where you were in a business and someone was committing armed robbery, what would make you stay and fight versus attempting to immediately escape?
Say that you were in a store (not your own business) where you were one of several customers near the cashier when an armed robbery began to take place.
What sorts of things would trigger the "fight" reaction, as opposed to merely standing quietly through the occurrence, or attempting to escape the situation?
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MissMichella, your questions were perfectly valid, and discussions of this sort can be very useful. However, crafting an incredibly detailed scenario can be a pain---so one way around it is to make the person answering add the details that would cause them to change their reactions. :)
(Another is to pull a scenario from a real-life occurrence. However, often the problem with that is you get a lot of after-the-fact quarterbacking from people who don't have realistic ideas of their own skills. I'm not saying that happens here, I'm just saying it is something you'll see often on various forums in response to "what if you'd been HERE" questions. The famous, "Well, I woulda..." line shows up.)
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