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Quote from: Woodchuck on January 07, 2015, 12:00:32 PMWoodblock huh? Ok, I got something for that.
Woodblock huh? Ok, I got something for that.
The discussion on the good guy or bad guy topic of this thread is interesting.Ask yourself this, if you are unarmed (it's hypothetical) and see each of these men coming towards you down the trail, does one make you more nervous than the other? I can honestly say that a shaggy looking guy with a sword is going to have the prejudice meter in me topping out like a thermometer in death valley in July at lunch time.Now change/switch their attire and accessories up. I'm still more worried about the shaggy guy with the sword. Skin color doesn't bother me. Unbalanced behavior does grab my attention, and walking around the woods with a sword is not an action that I would mark down in the mentally "balanced" category.Some prejudices are hard wired survival instinct. Labeling these prejudices as racism is inaccurate.
Quote from: Seahawk12 on January 07, 2015, 02:59:34 PMThe discussion on the good guy or bad guy topic of this thread is interesting.Ask yourself this, if you are unarmed (it's hypothetical) and see each of these men coming towards you down the trail, does one make you more nervous than the other? I can honestly say that a shaggy looking guy with a sword is going to have the prejudice meter in me topping out like a thermometer in death valley in July at lunch time.Now change/switch their attire and accessories up. I'm still more worried about the shaggy guy with the sword. Skin color doesn't bother me. Unbalanced behavior does grab my attention, and walking around the woods with a sword is not an action that I would mark down in the mentally "balanced" category.Some prejudices are hard wired survival instinct. Labeling these prejudices as racism is inaccurate. Yeah and the other guy could be some highly trained special ops dude like Jason Bourne. He looks harmless until your neck is snapped! Or he could be one of those homosexuals and you know what they will do to you if the catch you in the woods. Deliverance...
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Quote from: elkinrutdrivemenuts on January 07, 2015, 04:41:20 PMQuote from: Seahawk12 on January 07, 2015, 02:59:34 PMThe discussion on the good guy or bad guy topic of this thread is interesting.Ask yourself this, if you are unarmed (it's hypothetical) and see each of these men coming towards you down the trail, does one make you more nervous than the other? I can honestly say that a shaggy looking guy with a sword is going to have the prejudice meter in me topping out like a thermometer in death valley in July at lunch time.Now change/switch their attire and accessories up. I'm still more worried about the shaggy guy with the sword. Skin color doesn't bother me. Unbalanced behavior does grab my attention, and walking around the woods with a sword is not an action that I would mark down in the mentally "balanced" category.Some prejudices are hard wired survival instinct. Labeling these prejudices as racism is inaccurate. Yeah and the other guy could be some highly trained special ops dude like Jason Bourne. He looks harmless until your neck is snapped! Or he could be one of those homosexuals and you know what they will do to you if the catch you in the woods. Deliverance...Yeah. You're right. Could be. However, I am referring to natural and instinctive evaluation of threat levels. If you go through life putting everyone on the same threat level then paranoia has likely set in. There are people out there that plainly display that they are not to be trusted. This is where your instinctive prejudice pays off.If even 1% of the "normal" looking people were actually psychopaths then I don't believe that society as we know it could function.
Now that the op has chimed in with more info,My point is well proven.Both breaking the law.Picture 1 clean cut short hair,well dressed. While the 2nd is what some have considered out of the norm.Both breaking the law.As for the guy walking in the city with rifle slung, no I dont think it should warrant any LEO interferance of his or her second unless a crime has or can be shown will soon happen for some reason.
I heard a story of a couple hunters stopped eating lunch on a deer hunt in back woods of Idaho. They look up and about 20 yards away is two guys stalking them in pitch black with swords. The hunters raised there gun and said something like one more step u guys are dead. Never thought the story was real or gave any thought till now.....