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Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:8Mjcr.11402$Cc4.10781@unlimited.newshosting.com: 

> On 27/03/2012 8:46 AM, DanS wrote:
>> Metspitzer<Kilowatt@charter.net>  wrote in
>> news:vmp1n7dp8ji8pq8b1vv0v4fm6184ctoc9u@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:27:40 -0400, Wolf K
>>> <wekirch@sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/03/26
>>>> /tr 
>>>> ayvon-martins-psychological-killer-why-we-see-guns-that-a
>>>> ren t-there/
>>>>
>>>> Wolf K.
>>>
>>> When George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin walking down the
>>> street in Sanford, Florida, he quickly assumed that the
>>> Black, hoodie-clad teenager was carrying a weapon.
>>>
>>> He then pulled out his gun and fatally shot the young
>>> student, whose hands were gripping nothing more than a
>>> bag of Skittles.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> -- --------------------- Wow.........that is totally NOT
>>> how it happened.
>>>
>>
>> You're right.
>>
>> I saw a video on Youtube of some Foxnews like broadcast
>> where the people said, "Zimmerman saw a black kid walking
>> down the sidewalk and didn't like it, so he decided to
>> shoot him." 
> 
> The spins on the story are irrelevant to the point of the
> Sci Am article, which is that racial stereotypes influence
> our decisions/actions below the level of conscious
> awareness, and thus do in fact result in more black deaths
> (among other things, such as putting spin on a story).
> 
> One of dearest illusions is that our choices and decisions
> are conscious and rational. They aren't. At best we may
> have time to review the choices our subconscious serves up.
> But even the decision to review a decision comes from the
> subconscious, which must have time and inclination to make
> it. IOW, it's only when we have sufficient time between the
> decision-trigger and the action that we _may_ be able to 
> second-guess ourselves and act more rationally. But if we
> are in the grip of an emotion that's pushing us in certain
> direction, it's unlikely that the subconscious will serve
> up the decision to second-guess ourselves. Reason
> calculates, emotion selects. 
> 
> IMO, Zimmerman was gripped by such an emotion, which made
> it essentially impossible for him to consider the
> possibility that the hooded figure was a) not an intruder;
> and b) seeing him as the aggressor. Some recent data
> suggests that now he is well aware that he made some bad
> and unreasonable decisions, but it's too late,
> unfortunately. 
> 
> And that ends my comments on this issue.

Fair enough.

Don't you think the kid going back to Zimmerman, confronting 
him, and attacking him, was a bad decision on it's own? I 
mean, if he was being "chased" and "got away", why go and 
confront the guy doing the chasing?

(PS- *If* that's the way it happened, which is what the 
physical evidence points towards.)