> Can you imagine telling a victim of a mugging (or worse) to "just ignore them" the next time it happens?
Isn't this standard advice, to just give them your money and avoid escalating the situation?
Isn't this standard advice, to just give them your money and avoid escalating the situation?
Children in schools likely do not have weapons. It's hand-to-hand fighting with only weapons of opportunity (e.g. heavy books) available, and the provoking child likely isn't ready to use a weapon of opportunity.
Granted I'm not inherently saying that a victim should always deck a bully in the face. If that were the case, however, I'd say that child v bully has the advantage over the mugger v victim.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/06/2...
In at least one case, a serial rapist rapist walked free because he had no prior history of sexual crimes. Because prior reports were unsubstantiated since the prior victims didn't fight back.
Tried to find this article without joy. One of the bajillion I come across via RSS.
http://www.womenslawproject.org/resources/Rape%20and%20Sexua...
Many others make no mention either way, and I suspect many of them would then fall back to the traditional requirement.
Yeah, and I think it's the best advice for a one-off incident like a mugger or running into bullies in the park. Just worry about your own safety, get out of there as soon as you possibly can, and don't return. A mugger isn't the best comparison.
But what if the mugger is there every day at 6pm when you're getting out of the office? Do you just keep buying a new wallet and giving it to them every day? What if the mugger works for the same company as you, and sits 50 feet from you, and every time you walk by them to go to the bathroom they make that exaggerated knuckle-cracking gesture while staring your down and mouthing "six o'clock".
Getting bullied in the playground is one thing. It sucks. You can't go back to that park without being beaten up. But if the bully is in your school then your parents, teachers, government all mandate that you see that bully 5 days out of the week.
While some fraction would then escalate to rendering their victims unable to shoot prior to approaching, I think a greater fraction would simply choose a less confrontational way to acquire spending money. Those who did not change tactics would eventually get shot.
If the prey people change tactics, so will the predator people. Shooting the muggers tends to produce a wilier, more dangerous, harder-to-shoot breed of mugger. There will be fewer of them, but instead of waving their knife in your face, they will bash the back of your head with a rock. While you are out, they will photograph everything in your wallet before putting it right back in your pocket, and take just your phone and gun. Then if you don't report all your cards as stolen, someone buys your details from a darkweb site, does a little social engineering, and cleans out your accounts.
If you could somehow automate the process of stealing just a little bit of money from a lot of people, all at once, all the time, that would totally disrupt...
...the banking industry.~ [cue rimshot]
Thank you. I'll be here every open mic night.