06-26-2013, 01:35 AM
TheOTHERmaninblack Wrote:Thanks, and I wish I could believe that. But, in reading her own words, she says flat out that the cop suggested she get training. A suggestion she turned into some weird accusation that she'd committed a crime.
These guys are like the Moro warriors who led to the adaption of the .45acp. They just wrapped themselves in telegraph wire, juiced up, and came roaring at you screaming. They didn't let up until either they were dead or you were. You couldn't talk to them, you couldn't reason with them.
You're right that I haven't come up with an answer. Not for lack of trying. How do you reason with somebody who won't be reasoned with? How do you speak rationally with someone whose idea of what rational is lies so far out of your scope that it mimics madness?
On the surface, we can use education to save those not yet infected with the virus, and even save some of the lesser infectees. Both of those are noble pursuits. But in dealing with the true believer, there isn't a cure, and we can't put them down. Their brains are broken. They no longer function in a manner that allows reason in the traditional sense to enter or gain foothold.
It wouldn't be a problem if so many of them hadn't achieved stations of high power. At this point, the deck is stacked heavily against us, and has been converted to some weird surreal pattern in which up is sideways and down is wherever they decide it is at any given moment. We're playing societal Calvinball and our leaders haven't figured out the lack of rules yet.
TOMIB:
You have to choose your battles. Why take on something you know you won't win? Take on the things you know you have a better than even chance of winning. Know when to fight and when not to fight.
Getting the ass as some of these folks is a waste of calories. Even reading or listening to some of them is a waste of precious seconds of your life.
So, know what to burn up your energy on and what to ignore.
BTW -- I did my practice at the range today.
Anyone else?
LR1955