As a special education teacher who sometimes had assaultive students, I was trained to try de-escalate the situation, staying calm and non-threatening, while making sure I wasn't getting myself boxed in without an avenue to run for it if necessary. I have used those strategies several times during encounters with angry random strangers in public settings, and so far it's never come to violence.
Well said. I believe that almost ALL later regreted negative verbalizations by humans, that trigger more violence instead of calming things down, are caused by Pride overcoming common sense and reason, within both the victim and the perpetrator of physically injurious violence.
C.S. Lewis wrote, and I agree, that "... it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But Pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God." -- Quote from Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.
As a special education teacher who sometimes had assaultive students, I was trained to try de-escalate the situation, staying calm and non-threatening, while making sure I wasn't getting myself boxed in without an avenue to run for it if necessary. I have used those strategies several times during encounters with angry random strangers in public settings, and so far it's never come to violence.
Prudent advice.
And ladies need to avoid commentary in agitated situations, as the violent response usually comes down on the adjoining man
As an emergency physician you are the first responder in the health system of a hospital. Good advice
Well said. I believe that almost ALL later regreted negative verbalizations by humans, that trigger more violence instead of calming things down, are caused by Pride overcoming common sense and reason, within both the victim and the perpetrator of physically injurious violence.
C.S. Lewis wrote, and I agree, that "... it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But Pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God." -- Quote from Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.
https://www.dacc.edu/assets/pdfs/PCM/merechristianitylewis.pdf