@TerryHancock @SnoopJ @VATVSLPR yeah, I also thought about something like learning to use a firearm and preparing yourself for the possibility of having to point it at another human being and pull the trigger. All sorts of things like that. Preparing yourself for situations that you hope will never come up, and if you're lucky will never come up, but if they DO come up, you need to be able to react... Effortlessly, as you say.

@TerryHancock @SnoopJ @VATVSLPR that's true.

I had a minister once who used to say, "There as nothing so prepared as an off the cuff response."

Obviously he was talking about something else, but I guess that translates here: "There is nothing so prepared as a snap decision."

It makes sense to at least give some thought to what you might do if you were ever so unlucky as to find yourself in a position like this, so that if it were to happen, you at least have some idea on which to base your decision. Even if you can never FULLY prepare yourself for something like this.

@TerryHancock @SnoopJ I think that's why the hypothetical thought experiment has such urgency built into it. Decide now! Flip the switch or not. Push the fat man or not. Tick tock. Tick tock.

A similar tactic to that used by phishers. And the response is the same: "Nothing is that urgent. Stop. Breathe. Think."