(October 9, 2012 at 9:01 am)IATIA Wrote: Basically, one cannot really know what one would do under those circumstances, as the plethora of emotions/chemicals, that establish the state of mind at the time, are indeterminable.
Bingo. Most humans falsey think they would do certain things in given situations, but when one is talking about times of trauma or extreme stress, what we want to do or what we think we should do, doesn't always translate to reality.
D-DAY on those beaches, there were pleanty of soilders who while brave enough to even get to the beach, which I could not have emotionally handled, once there hid behind rocks and ere paralized emotionally. That didn't make them cowards, it made them human.
It is always lip service to say what you would do when in danger. Until you are actually in that moment, you simply don't know. Even some normally considered physical wimps can do things they normally wouldn't do. I have myself, being a wimp, broken up fights, mainly because I didn't have time to think about it. If I had time to think about it I would have been less likely to step in.
You simply cannot write a script to life.
