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An insane person is trying to kill you with a knife. Do you:

a) Shoot him?, or

b) Worry about what your neighbors will think if you shoot him? I mean, maybe you could try harder to persuade the insane person that murdering you with a knife is an antisocial act, and that perhaps if you were to give him something else it would be so entertaining to his murderous psychosis that he would no longer want to stab you dozens of times and chop your body into pieces and eat it. Perhaps he had a poor upbringing and just needs someone to be his friend, even though he thinks you are Satan and that he has ants in his head painfully chewing on his brain. And if you shoot him, though your neighbors already utterly despise you and have repeatedly tried to drive you out of your house over and over again, and call you filthy names and compare you to Nazis, that maybe they will no longer like you and want to invite you to their country club and ask you to be their BFF. Because more than anything else you want to be loved by the people who hate and despise you, and maybe somehow it is your fault that the insane person who has been trying to savagely murder you for over 50 years wants to do so. That is, maybe if you can just internally argue about it for decades it will change something, if you can just manage to keep not getting slashed and poked all that time...