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Originally Posted by catadjuster
I don't think that it is about paranoia at all. Our brains pick up messages and cues about our surroundings and set our nerve endings to tingling. So; at that point, you begin to pay conscious attention to your surroundings and the predator sees you paying attention. Then, when nothing happens (because you were aware and the predator decides to find an easier target) then the natural inclination is for you to just discard your awareness as paranoia since nothing "actually" happened.
The truth is that something DID happen - you were targeted, evaluated and eliminated as a victim. Trust your gut instinct.
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Our brains are interpreting the same clues in very different ways. To some people, anyone they don't know is a potential bad guy. I was walking in a grocery store parking lot one night and saw a middle age woman fast going to her car looking very scared, turning her head in all directions, and with one hand inside her bag. She may have had car keys in it, or she may have had a gun. Now, imagine someone who doesn't even know she's there suddenly emerging out of his parked car as she walks by. She could very easily get startled and kill a completely innocent person - your son, perhaps.
A healthy dose of situation awareness is one thing, but a paranoid person has a mental condition and should not be armed.