K-9 Posted 3 hours ago Report Posted 3 hours ago 2 hours ago, SABRES 0311 said: Yes I have. And those acts are part of the same mechanism. They provide a plausible reason to assess. Although, walking up to a stranger car parked down the road late at night (by yourself) is borderline naive. Naive? No. Just capable of assessing situations without being governed by paranoia. As much as Trump and the right wing media want to scare us and convince us otherwise, we are not in a war zone and fellow citizens are not our enemies.
SABRES 0311 Posted 3 hours ago Report Posted 3 hours ago 18 minutes ago, K-9 said: Naive? No. Just capable of assessing situations without being governed by paranoia. As much as Trump and the right wing media want to scare us and convince us otherwise, we are not in a war zone and fellow citizens are not our enemies. Literally nothing of what you said has anything to do with my post. Somehow you equate common sense paranoia.
K-9 Posted 1 hour ago Report Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, SABRES 0311 said: Literally nothing of what you said has anything to do with my post. Somehow you equate common sense paranoia. Your post seemed to imply that it’s naive to approach a strange car at night. If that is mistaken, ok. But if not, then what I said has everything to do with your post in that there are ways of assessing situations to ascertain threat levels, etc. If you don’t agree that paranoia prevents us from being engaged, fine. And I didn’t equate common sense with paranoia in the least. That is your judgement alone. And while my comment about Trump and the right wing media had nothing to do with your post per se and you are free to ignore it, I stand by my comment nonetheless. He and his admin are fear mongers that want us to be paranoid of each other, that need us to be paranoid of each other.
SABRES 0311 Posted 1 hour ago Report Posted 1 hour ago 16 minutes ago, K-9 said: Your post seemed to imply that it’s naive to approach a strange car at night. If that is mistaken, ok. But if not, then what I said has everything to do with your post in that there are ways of assessing situations to ascertain threat levels, etc. If you don’t agree that paranoia prevents us from being engaged, fine. And I didn’t equate common sense with paranoia in the least. That is your judgement alone. And while my comment about Trump and the right wing media had nothing to do with your post per se and you are free to ignore it, I stand by my comment nonetheless. He and his admin are fear mongers that want us to be paranoid of each other, that need us to be paranoid of each other. Common sense comes with life experience. The idea of observing your environment and being realistic about the times we live in should not be a foreign concept. Confusing those simple concepts with paranoia makes people soft targets for criminals. Same type of people who stare at their phones in public, think complete strangers value life as much as they do, and mix reality with what they want reality to be.
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