NNN0LHI
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:05 PM
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Poll question: Could someone convince you their intentions were good at gunpoint? |
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I don't think we are going to be able to convince the Iraqis either.
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:09 PM
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1. Of course. It's called the "Stockholm Syndrome" |
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Edited on Tue Sep-27-05 12:22 PM by TahitiNut
Like most folks (the "Lake Wobegon effect"), I'd like to think I'm somehow "better" than most -- those whose behavior is predicted by the Stanford Jail Experiment and Milgram's experiments, or characterized by the Stockholm Syndrome. I'd like to ... but I can't. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndromehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experimentTo better understand this in the context of today's political polarization, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Wing_Authoritarianism
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:10 PM
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2. yes.... how about a cop? |
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:12 PM
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4. No when a cop points his gun at me I don't think his intentions are good |
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:11 PM
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3. Like I said in another thread... |
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...As little as I care for the hijacking of our government as it stands, I'd certainly become a Minuteman in a second if another superpower...lower case "s"...tried to land on our shores and help us in a "regime change."
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Tue Sep-27-05 12:14 PM
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5. Pointing at me and my family and anyone that looks like me? No |
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All for no reason at all? No way
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Oeditpus Rex
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Tue Sep-27-05 01:31 PM
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6. It would depend on how they presented their intentions |
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and what their intentions were.
A 1983 TV movie, "Special Bulletin," used a "War of the Worlds"-style breaking-news theme to depict domestic nuclear terrorism. A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage by a group led by a former DOD think-tanker and a nuclear scientist who use the TV feed to broadcast their cause and their demands from a tugboat in the Charleston, S.C. harbor. On the boat, they've placed a nuclear weapon built by the scientist and set to explode if the warhead detonators kept in the harbor aren't delivered to them for disposal.
Gradually over the course of the 20-something-hour hostage situation, it's apparent that the reporter comes to agree with their cause. Anyone who's anti-nuke would likely do the same.
I know it's "just a movie," but it's one that really makes you think. Too bad it never got the notoriety of "The Day After," as it presented the same message in a different way, and better IMHO.
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