Posted by Miss Honeychurch on January 18, 2005, at 15:49:32
In reply to Re: What would you have to say to someone » Miss Honeychurch, posted by AuntieMel on January 18, 2005, at 13:03:49
I think your adrenaline and basic instinct wouldn't give you the option of NOT fighting back. I think the survival instinct is so basic that it would be automatic. I can certainly understand being traumatized by it after, but at the time, I think instinct takes over.
But the good question is, how near a threat does it have to be? Or how close to me? If someone were aiming a gun at my husband or mother or child (if I had one) I think I would kill the person threatening to kill my loved one.
and, would I do a pre-emptive strike? I have no idea!
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