A good example of how the clash between r and K changes once violence is involved:
A hotly-contested decision by law enforcement to use a drone robot to blow up a U.S. citizen, who allegedly carried out the murders of five police officers in Dallas, just got exponentially more controversial—because, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, the “whole idea was improvised in about 15 to 20 minutes.”
Already igniting fury around the country for neglecting any semblance of due process, the use of the “Remotec model F-5” to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to decimate suspected shooter Micah Xavier Johnson as he targeted police in a sniper-style attack, has been revealed by the police chief as a hastily-plotted … whim.
Brown’s disturbing offhand comment came during a press conference in which the model of the “mechanical tactical drone”—clarified as the “Remotec Andros Mark V-A1?—was finally made public, in an apparent attempt to quell constitutional rights’ advocates ire over the unprecedented move by police.
There was a time when if an officer had proposed driving 1lb of C4 up to a suspect and blowing it up, he would have made everyone laugh uproariously. Now, in these times, this could become a go-to response.
I’ll be the first to say that my own feeling is there should be some sort of limitation on law enforcement blowing up civilians with robots. But I have to also recognize that such an emotional response when so much was at stake in that moment, is a vestige of my r-upbringing. Indeed, the very conversation over such a mortally salient issue is a luxury which can only exist when times are r.
When things turn K, psychologies change, and abstract ideals and values will give way to the banally practical wherever death is involved. Was the perp possibly going to kill civilians? Did he say he had bombs planted which he might detonate at any moment? If he poses a threat of death, then you blow him up. If r-minded people complain later, you ignore them, because practically there is little they can do in times of K.
In times of r, rabbits can tie a K-strategist up in red tape and bureaucracy for eons as they fight for the out-group, but in times of K, as we are seeing now, there will be little practical resistance on the rabbit’s bureaucracy front wherever and out-group threatens death.
Now, the rules K’s apply to their in-groups, and the ruthless practicality they apply to threatening out-groups are both excellent from a K’s perspective. The problem lies in where r and K begin to blend together. When r’s gain the ability to tell K’s to use ruthless practicality on the in-group, or when they tie us up in rules when dealing with a threatening out-group, nothing but trouble is to come.
Until then, the #BlackLivesMatter protester blows up real good.
As one Freeper said, #BlackLivesSplatter.
