A Vestigial Mote
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The woman is holding a gun, and there is blood. That is a done deal in my estimation. If nothing is amiss, then the police may surmise that, and everything is good/fine/whatever. I am not going to simply sit by and allow someone to wave a gun around in a room with a bloodied person, and there is absolutely no reason to. Get someone involved who will take a look at the situation and make a determination if there was mal-intent involved. I would see it as negligence on the part of the observer not to. Again... better safe than sorry. The kid may be hurt, and maybe swift action from someone who knows what they are doing can save him. Take the leap... make the call... potentially help be a part of saving the day. And otherwise, what was harmed if the evidence lets the woman off and the kid is fine? Any law enforcement official would understand completely why they were called to the scene under those circumstances.Take it a step more, why would you call the police if you didn't have evidence and witness the event?
Because more often than not, blood=danger. And a gun in the equation kicks the potential for immediate danger up quite a few notches. Your entire scenario screams "danger." Anyone who doesn't see it that way probably has a broken "fight or flight" response.How did you come to the conclusion the child was in danger to call the police (theorizing here)?
That's part of recognizing patterns. Taking things for granted. Sure we all do it. And the reason we keep doing it is because, more often than not, the things we take for granted end up being confirmed/correct, and our confidence in our ability to take certain things for granted increases. If you have a 95% success rate in determining the outcome of something, then you tend to take it for granted the next time. If you only have a 5% success rate, then you don't take things for granted, and make sure you're careful in your movements and judgments each time.We take things for granted, really. We see, hear, even experience something so strong we automatically thing it's true. While we can't investigate everything, I'm sure there are some things so real we think they are true but if we stood back, we wouldn't know.
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