On Wed, 7 May 2008 15:12:13 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
() wrote:
>In article <ZeSdneSp_sjmK7zVnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>HeyBub <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> In article <roKdnRyyZfhul7zVnZ2dnUVZ_rKtnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> HeyBub <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> I learned, during my tenure as a cop, that people are basically
>>>> funny. If you stress 'em a bit, the facade of civilization drops
>>>> away. Ask any cop, ambulance driver, emergency room worker, or fire
>>>> fighter and they can tell you stories.
>>>
>>> Many people have told me stories and I've lived through a few myself;
>>> what I've learned is that it works both ways.
>>>
>>> As human being-type peope get stressed a bit for some 'the facade of
>>> civilisation' drops, for others they get spurred to heights of
>>> selflessness, courage, nobility and valor.
>
>[snip]
>
>>I agree.
>>
>>I was just watching the TV archives of the 9-11 attack this morning and
that
>>story proves your point. Tens of thousands screamed like little girls
and
>>bagged it for Pennsylvania while a few hundred ran toward the source of
the
>>mayhem.
>
>From this it might be concluded that these characteristics of
>selflessness, courage, nobility and valor are *not* genetically related;
>those who run towards danger decrease their chances, once the danger has
>passed, of having children.
In prehistoric days (your youth), the hunter who ran TOWARD the enraged
woolly mammoth
increased his family's chance of survival. That's why men take risks and
women don't, but
are attracted to alpha males who do. That explains Eliot Spitzer's
actions.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/121492
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