RE: 4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence
July 9, 2016 at 9:00 am
Everyone is so bent on on focusing on labels. I think humans do not understand that any type of physical violence, or witness to such, is going to mentally scramble someone's brains. We are not a separate species. We cant talk about someone in terms of labels all we want, but the truth is you put anyone in a position, military or not, war or civilian, or neighborhood, anywhere in the world, in a position of being witness to violence, it will lead that person to react. NO it is no more an excuse than any other. But an explanation. To a much smaller scale, the same thing causes a bullied kid to grow up to become a bully and or be destructive.
These are NOT excuses, but taking in terms of CONDITIONS in terms of how any human can react psychologically and be mentally affected by what they repeatedly see. Even EMTs can suffer PTSD after showing up to things like a baby dying in a car accident.
I am fucking sick of theists OF ALL LABELS acting like a fucking label, or skin color or boarder, when one suffers at the hands of another, stupidly thinks that because they were wrongfully hurt in that single case, that by proxy of label, outside that context, that label never does anything wrong.
NO AND FUCK YOU, Muslims and Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and even atheists, we are all the same species. Blacks and whites and cops are human beings. Knowing that guy was x military, to me is no different than knowing what the Fort Hood shooter was x military, and knowing even without mass shootings, how many military come home with PTSD and either commit suicide or even murder their spouses.
Witnessing any type of trauma as a kid or an adult always to greater or lesser degrees have an affect on the witness or victim. You don't accept that because you sympathize with more violence in response. You accept that as pure psychological evolution so that you can work to seek preventive actions and intervention. Our species needs to learn more in terms of evolutionary psychology and not simply always default to beating the shit out someone who hurt us. Certainly reacting to violence IS NORMAL, but unfortunately, it works the same way for those who act outside the law as well. You subject any human to violence, you can say they deserved it all you want, regardless, if that "enemy" thinks they are justified because of what they think you did, thy are reacting like any human would, regardless of how bad their logic may be.
That also cuts to the core why we DONT need more guns. We need better training for cops, We need more funding for non-lethal crisis training. We need better vetting to insure the mentally ill don't get them. We need conditions so that bot society and cops are not set up to fear each other. Blacks are not sub human, and neither are cops. All 7 billion humans civilian or not, still stem from the same DNA of our common ancestors. So the issue is bad logic. The issue is irrationally buying into fear, so that one industry can profit off the deaths of both cops and blacks.
It is the same reaction you get in PTSD from Palestinians or Jews whom subject each other, but morso the kids of both, you constantly live in fear and you see violence all around you, you form irrational perceptions and groups, from street gangs, to political nationalism and religion, and forming those groups DOES have the predictive behavior of group survival, but that same PTSD causes different groups to fight each other. It is why this guy shot the cops, no matter how wrong it is. It is why cops also default to "fear the worst", because of all the violence they may see on a daily or weekly basis.
You take acts as individual acts, but you also consider the climate of conditions that can lead to those individual acts. Just like you treat each hurricane as unique but you can understand what conditions have the potential to lead to one. The fact is, weapons of war, guns, and violence, on a global scale, all he way down to a hate group level, to the gang level, to the bully level. We want to believe those things are different, but no matter how big or small the scale, or the degree of physical harm, trauma, even spousal abuse or child abuse, all have psychological affects to the witness and or victim.
We have got to stop this bullshit mentality, especially with men, that having guns makes you "manly" and "brave". No it just makes you stupid. It is bad enough humans need weapons, but the horrible logic coming from the right, is they scream "fear government", but are the same people that when a cop is murdered will scream "give them the death penalty".
How about better logic? How about creating conditions where nobody gets that desperate? How about we create also better conditions so cops aren't trained to shoot first? How about vetting the public better in the first place, so that both society and cops don't have to live in fear of witnessing violence or death?
We don't need more guns. We don't need to be telling men, you need to get violent to prove your bravery.
These are NOT excuses, but taking in terms of CONDITIONS in terms of how any human can react psychologically and be mentally affected by what they repeatedly see. Even EMTs can suffer PTSD after showing up to things like a baby dying in a car accident.
I am fucking sick of theists OF ALL LABELS acting like a fucking label, or skin color or boarder, when one suffers at the hands of another, stupidly thinks that because they were wrongfully hurt in that single case, that by proxy of label, outside that context, that label never does anything wrong.
NO AND FUCK YOU, Muslims and Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and even atheists, we are all the same species. Blacks and whites and cops are human beings. Knowing that guy was x military, to me is no different than knowing what the Fort Hood shooter was x military, and knowing even without mass shootings, how many military come home with PTSD and either commit suicide or even murder their spouses.
Witnessing any type of trauma as a kid or an adult always to greater or lesser degrees have an affect on the witness or victim. You don't accept that because you sympathize with more violence in response. You accept that as pure psychological evolution so that you can work to seek preventive actions and intervention. Our species needs to learn more in terms of evolutionary psychology and not simply always default to beating the shit out someone who hurt us. Certainly reacting to violence IS NORMAL, but unfortunately, it works the same way for those who act outside the law as well. You subject any human to violence, you can say they deserved it all you want, regardless, if that "enemy" thinks they are justified because of what they think you did, thy are reacting like any human would, regardless of how bad their logic may be.
That also cuts to the core why we DONT need more guns. We need better training for cops, We need more funding for non-lethal crisis training. We need better vetting to insure the mentally ill don't get them. We need conditions so that bot society and cops are not set up to fear each other. Blacks are not sub human, and neither are cops. All 7 billion humans civilian or not, still stem from the same DNA of our common ancestors. So the issue is bad logic. The issue is irrationally buying into fear, so that one industry can profit off the deaths of both cops and blacks.
It is the same reaction you get in PTSD from Palestinians or Jews whom subject each other, but morso the kids of both, you constantly live in fear and you see violence all around you, you form irrational perceptions and groups, from street gangs, to political nationalism and religion, and forming those groups DOES have the predictive behavior of group survival, but that same PTSD causes different groups to fight each other. It is why this guy shot the cops, no matter how wrong it is. It is why cops also default to "fear the worst", because of all the violence they may see on a daily or weekly basis.
You take acts as individual acts, but you also consider the climate of conditions that can lead to those individual acts. Just like you treat each hurricane as unique but you can understand what conditions have the potential to lead to one. The fact is, weapons of war, guns, and violence, on a global scale, all he way down to a hate group level, to the gang level, to the bully level. We want to believe those things are different, but no matter how big or small the scale, or the degree of physical harm, trauma, even spousal abuse or child abuse, all have psychological affects to the witness and or victim.
We have got to stop this bullshit mentality, especially with men, that having guns makes you "manly" and "brave". No it just makes you stupid. It is bad enough humans need weapons, but the horrible logic coming from the right, is they scream "fear government", but are the same people that when a cop is murdered will scream "give them the death penalty".
How about better logic? How about creating conditions where nobody gets that desperate? How about we create also better conditions so cops aren't trained to shoot first? How about vetting the public better in the first place, so that both society and cops don't have to live in fear of witnessing violence or death?
We don't need more guns. We don't need to be telling men, you need to get violent to prove your bravery.
