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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 3765474" data-attributes="member: 1132">&quot;Good&quot; will not work on people driven by their emotions. The human brain is hard wired to focus more intently on bad things, while good things are easily forgotten. The media feeds on that and makes sure the bad stuff stays at the forefront.If you want to make a message stick, you have to make it a negative one. You have to make those easily swayed, emotion driven people afraid to give up their self-determination. I realize that&#039;s a tough sell to people who don&#039;t even think ahead to the next stop light when they&#039;re driving, or if their insurance coverage is adequate to protect their assets. Somehow you have to show them that they cannot count on the police (except to harass law abiding citizens exercising their rights), cannot count on the courts because we do not have a &quot;justice&quot; system, and they definitely cannot count on their politicians to correctly make laws that will target violent criminals, without gravely harming their own self interests. Without the fear, apathy reigns supreme. It sucks, but it&#039;s a universal truth. <img src="/images/smilies/frown.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 3765474, member: 1132"] "Good" will not work on people driven by their emotions. The human brain is hard wired to focus more intently on bad things, while good things are easily forgotten. The media feeds on that and makes sure the bad stuff stays at the forefront. If you want to make a message stick, you have to make it a negative one. You have to make those easily swayed, emotion driven people afraid to give up their self-determination. I realize that's a tough sell to people who don't even think ahead to the next stop light when they're driving, or if their insurance coverage is adequate to protect their assets. Somehow you have to show them that they cannot count on the police (except to harass law abiding citizens exercising their rights), cannot count on the courts because we do not have a "justice" system, and they definitely cannot count on their politicians to correctly make laws that will target violent criminals, without gravely harming their own self interests. Without the fear, apathy reigns supreme. It sucks, but it's a universal truth. :( [/QUOTE]

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