Lex at Neptunus Lex ("The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy!") reminds us how biases may mislead us.
Money quote(s):
"In a normal hostage negotiation, authorities want to 1) control the situation in order to, 2) prevent it from getting any worse. But once the pirates understood that they were not going to be allowed to go ashore with their “booty”, the hostages were worthless to them. Their humanity apparently counted for nothing.
So why not kill them, then move forward, empty your hands, surrender and await your trial?
Lessons: People everywhere are really not the same. We don’t understand these people."
The "Reasonable Man Premise" is a form of the cognitive bias known as "mirror imaging."
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