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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5751385" data-attributes="member: 19675">I've had a few years of formal study of human psychology at the graduate level.  One thing that gets drummed into the students is that, for all our claims of rationality, the brain's limbic system- our irrational emotions- are what goes into action first under stress.  Training lets us reel it in faster.The first 2 people here are written as classic modern American villains, a violent racist and a wife-beating proto-pedophile.  In addition, they are being classically human- acting on their irrational impulses before controlling them...arguably, not controlling their irrationality because those aspect of their being are- to them- normal and natural.And besides, bad people will be among the survivors of any extinction level event.The farmer is, by his very nature, a man who feels so very deeply an empathy towards humans that, again, the irrational limbic system- plus a probable case of some severe PTSD- has overriden his rational mind and training.  Surely he has smelled and seen rotting flesh in his capacity as a farmer and a veterinarian...but his traumatized mind will not let him accept what his life experience and training has surely taught him.Are you saying that Aussies are superhuman in this regard?  That they are immune to prejudice and the trauma of mental anguish?</blockquote>