This is a sign of amygdala function:
The father of a woman killed by a convicted sex offender dived across a courtroom table to attack him Thursday shortly after a judge sentenced the defendant to death for killing three people and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.
Van Terry, the father of Shirellda Terry, had walked to the front of the courtroom to give a victim-impact statement and turned toward Michael Madison, who gave him a malicious smile. Terry lunged at Madison and was immediately swarmed by sheriff’s deputies as Madison and his attorneys scrambled to get out of the way.
You think I am talking about the dad whose amygdala drove him to try and attack the man who murdered his daughter. That is amygdala agitation driving behavior, but I am talking about the response of the Law Enforcement apparatus to his attack. Technically that dad broke a plethora of laws when he lunged at the killer. If you look at the video, it was a scene. Yet Law Enforcement just let him go afterward, with no charges.
In not charging him with any crime, the Law Enforcement apparatus used its own amygdala to relevance weigh all contravening circumstances and come to what any K-strategist would view as a just outcome. This is a sign of amygdala development. K-selected men with functional amygdalae, confronted with a situation, do not just head for the nearest rule book and try to find a pre-calculated outcome that fits some constellation of factors found somewhere in the book.
Rather, they take in all the facts, and look for a solution which their own intellect finds is just. This arises not out of preference, but out of necessity. This arises when men’s amygdalae are so strong and overpowering that behaving unjustly is not an option.
The amygdala-deficient are really inhuman, because the forces which drive you are absent in them. Sometimes I think it is why they want an all powerful government filled with rules and constraints. Lacking any internal force strong enough to guide their behavior forcefully, they are a neurotic mess of conflicting urges, in desperate need of an all powerful force to submit to, and be controlled by.
With the amygdala deficient, it is fortunate that the law doesn’t call for killing innocent people, because if it did, the amygdala deficient are the types of people who would carry out the orders without question.
[…] Amygdalae Take The Reins […]
What “law enforcement” did there is called “prosecutorial discretion”, and it has always been a vital part of a free society. I put law enforcement in quotes because it is itself a symptom of the malady — we used to call the police Peacekeepers. Now, it has shifted from keeping the peace to enforcing the law.
Whenever you hear someone talk about the cops “just doing their jobs” you are in this territory. If the only reason you are doing something as a cop is because it is your job, you shouldn’t be doing it — you should be using prosecutorial discretion.
To put it bluntly, “he needed killing” is a valid defense under American jurisprudence, because in those situations the police and prosecutor are supposed to decline to prosecute, and if they do, the jury is supposed to refuse to convict.
reminded me of this: