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Emotions, when I start to consider self-defense I am reminded that our monkey brains, our emotional side of the brain, tends to lead the pack for how men can find themselves in violent situations. When we are in social situations where status and ego are involved it doesn’t take much to find a verbal attack triggering the old monkey brain’s response mechanism that is solely about some monkey antics egoistic testerone prone response rather than a more logical human brain response toward avoidance, deescalation, or escape and evasion.
In a more asocial predatory situation that is about processes or resources the monkey once again becomes emotional, the monkey emotional actions and reactions are our ancient survival instincts going into save my ass mode. One reason why evolution created the logical human brain, as modern times became more civilized, or so we would like to think, the need to react to an attacking animal predator changed to a need to act and react to a human predator. Add in all the social conditioning that of course led to the social reactions in a legal system governing a new belief system we now have a need, a strong need, for proper human logical thinking to govern and moderate our monkey antics to achieve proper self-defense. In a recent example a couple being robbed at gun point ended in tragedy when the wife, after the husband was pistol whipped, looked at the robber and said something like, “What now, are you going to shoot us.” That monkey response got her shot and dead.
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