kidswarrior
Senior Master
Carol Kaur said:]I've had the best luck with ignoring people and avoiding eye contact. I've received advice to the contrary and found that anything that stimulates the other person in to conversation is usually more trouble than its worth.
Excellent point. While I want to show some humanity, do not want to start a relationship! (Read: give a predator any reason to think I'm weak/prey)
While you're not wrong, I don't think everyone else is either.
I think it really depends on the situation - you get to a point where you have a "feel" for what's the right thing to do.
:idunno: Like I said, I think there's a "feel" to the situation at hand.
Very incisive.
Shaderon said:A good point was made above a few posts, there's a lot of thugs out there who have felt little natural respect from people and they think the only way to get it is to enforce it. Showing them a little of that natural respect, by acknowledging them, saying you thought they were familiar or even just smiling is usually enough to gratify that respect craving.
However, when you get someone who is really after you for some reason like with Shesulsa, then the respect does nothing, it's not what they are after, you have to use different tactics then like Shesulsa did.
Thank you, Women of the MA, for reminding us it's a whole different ball game for females in our society. I have to admit I was thinking/writing as a male in my earlier post. :disgust: But these later posts filled in the huge gaps I left very nicely.