MatthewB comments on Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MatthewB 29 January 2010 08:06:06AM 1 point [-]

It worries me that we do not have more emphasis placed upon mustering out our Armed Forces members to undo some of the training that they receive, simply because their emotional biases have been so changed that it makes it difficult for many of them to re-integrate into society.

I think that we are developing a similar problem with Police, who are used to interacting primarily with the worst parts of society, and then developing a bias that the rest of society has similar behavioral trends as that lowest common denominator they are used to seeing.

I will have to re-read the Kahane comments about interpreting brain scans...