¶ Human Tolerance Limits (2)
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Human Tolerance Limits:
"exactly when it is needed, having been violated, the creature panics and forever after its behavior pattern becomes unpredictable.
"It is clear that with the pushing of the panic button a secondary set of subconscious behavior controls has been activated. It is one of comprehensive anticipatory design science’s self-disciplined responsibilities always to include fail-safe, automatically switched-in, alternate circuitry of mechanical functioning whenever a prime function facility is found wanting. When a series of failures has blown out all the alternate circuits’ fuses then a sense of lethal frustration sets in which is identified as panic. Once panicked, the individuals-- creatures or humans-- tend to trust nothing and their behavior then becomes utterly unpredictable. They become spontaneously suspicious of their environment in general and prone to be spontaneously hostile and aggressive.
“When they are aggressive, or even worse when they panic, both humans and animals demonstrate a subconscious drive only for self-survival. For instance, when a great theater fire disaster occurs and the fire quickly exhausts all the oxygen,”
¶ Citations
- SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 182-184, 17 May’75
