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Today I’d like to explore the psychology behind picking a self-defense weapon ( yes, just like the FedGov, I’m offensively minded but embrace the euphemism of defense to clock my intentions from the voters ).  We all clear our throat, put on a Serious Face and engage in mind numbing statistical discussions, but just as in most things we are merely trying to gay up the fact that we made life altering decisions based on emotion.  Emotion isn’t a bad way to decide, and we do it far more often than we believe, but knowing we don’t know is also a good way of knowing what we should know rather than knowing what we think we know.  You know?

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Emotion is how we pick our mate.  You know, the gal you potentially spend your life supporting ( as with many other important life questions, see Van Creveld on this subject-even with all women working and equal today, we are still carrying most of the financial burden.  Women work just as hard and always have, but primarily domestically.  Women, as good as they are as nurturers and partners, blow rabid monkey chunks at the workplace ), or the guy you have to put up with that long.  Your potential partner is mostly selected by millennial old signals codified in an emotional response. 

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This has a logic all of its own, genetically selected by evolutionary biology, and could still be called logical.  Just outside of your control.  But isn’t most of what we label emotions just that?  Signals from our species successful survival, knowing what works for the majority most of the time even when you have no clue.  Emotionally, you are attracted to the physical characteristics that define a better chance of breeding ( boobs and butt are fat reserves and the higher the female body fat the better the fetus is fed and the baby is suckled.  Today’s attraction of skinny is a short term cultural preference that will soon die out as it is a historical aberration. It signals monetary desirability which was only possible through our Oil Age one off surplus ).

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And to be clear, you fat nasty skanks, the attraction of body fat is entirely dependent on proportion.  Being a pear shape just because you ate a lot of McDonalds is not attractive.  It is the hourglass shape, in whatever gross weight ( gross as in total, not as in disgusting-sorry, I couldn’t resist ).  Skinnier is all right as long as it is proportional, as is overweight.  The bumper has to match the tailgate.  Any other combination is not naturally attractive as it is usually indicative of genetic inferiority. 

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Females are emotionally attracted to traits that maximize her offspring’s survival chances.  Males are zeroed in on reproduction ( the best looking kid with the best chances of surviving gestation and infancy ) where females focus on the longer period of raising the children.  She is emotionally attracted to aggressiveness and competence.  Seeking the alpha male is part of her social standing with other females, which is another way of protecting her children.  Not that all tribe member aren’t equal, they are.  No one gets more food over others.  But alpha males are more likely to prevail hunting or fighting which benefits her overall as the tribe is in theory more successful ( when all females seek the alpha, in theory the alphas join tribally and the weaker males don’t breed or join a tribe and their genes don’t reproduce ).

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So, as you can see emotion is a very powerful tool and should NOT be negatively dismissed offhand.  You just have to recognize that what we have been programmed to respond to emotionally has positive survival traits and what we ALSO respond to can have negatives.  You need to differentiate the two.  Now you know why you respond unthinkingly to a certain physical characteristic.  It has species survival at its core.  But when Madison Avenue shows you that shape to sell you a car or other product, you need to understand the signal has been misused.  What you thought of as “freedom” and “mobility” and “luxury” is just a pair of boobs motivating you to open your wallet. 

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Yes, yes we are just that easy to manipulate.  And even knowing you are being manipulated has little bearing on your ability to negate that manipulation.  Because you are using logic to try to stop your emotions.  You have to work for some time to retrain your emotional response, and you can only mute it rather than stop it, AND you need to use other emotions to suppress them rather than logic.  For instance, I knew all about living frugally.  I quickly succumbed to emotion stimuli negating all that training as soon as I was able.  And I only returned to frugal living after I was forced to ( only pain and suffering resets your brains programming ).  Once that frugal living went from logic to emotion, it isn’t able to be dislodged.

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This is a long about way of saying your seemingly logical decisions are probably just emotional responses ( it is also saying that while we are all programmed by sex and food, none of us wants to bone our mother, Freud, you sick bastard ).  We are driven by emotion because it has such survival value.  It is the other side of culture.  Culture is how we are programmed to act, and it is variable and adaptable to the situation.  Instead of logically problem solving, we emotionally respond as we were taught culturally.  That makes decisions instant and unthinking, mimicking animals instincts.  Emotion is how we intuitively respond to genetic programming, and cultural programming. 

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And how do you choose your firearms?  Emotionally.  Don’t you dare lie!  I know you do, as do I.  What I would like to discuss is how utilitarian an AR-15 is, and how much is determined by it’s various emotional stimuli, such as “forbidden fruit”, “cool factor”, “high tech”, or “pimpin entertainment”.  Of course, I’ll then be falling into the “logic trap” of attempting to evaluate its apparent effectiveness, but it’s the only other tool we have in our box.  Firearms themselves evoke an emotional response, the signal we receive of a survival tool.  The whole issue is emotionally charged ( gun control and gun rights are so emotional because of this primal reaction of fear ).  Continued tomorrow.

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