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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9224741" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Doesn't happen.  Otherwise rational people don't do any of the following:* Get juked/feinted out of position (sometimes tremendously so) on a basketball court or football field.* Rush a guy 30 lbs heavier than you who baits you for 20 minutes physically and verbally > who then throws a basketball at your head at point blank range after typical basketball contact > despite knowing with certainty that his two friends are going to jump you and start a full-scale donnybrook.* Stop in the middle of a busy intersection after an electrical utility worker has purposely driven his 7000 lb truck into the back of your vehicle at about 3-4 mph > proceed to get out your car and jump on the running board of the cab of the truck and slam your finger into the driver's side window to challenge the driver to a scrap.[HR][/HR]This, or events like it, just doesn't happen in our very mundane world...ever.  Humans are rational all the time.  They say rational things.  They do rational things.  All the time making optimal, rational decisions.  Never ever are they hijacked by their endocrine system or tricked by failures of their foolproof perception systems.  Never, ever do they weirdly tell self-incriminating falsehoods when the stakes are extremely high even when they didn't "do the thing."  Never do they make up events or data when peoples' well-being or even lives are on the line.  Never are they taken by false memories or misperceptions to entirely misrepresent events.Rational.  Perfect.  People.</blockquote>

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