I spent about thirty seconds setting up the scenario, then had the young men freeze in tableau when they found the same position as the figures in my training image. I gave the audience a few beats to process what they were looking at, then I asked them by a show of hands to tell me which of the two men they identified with. Nearly every person immediately placed themselves in the role of the victim, despite having just listened to me talk for seventeen minutes about the importance of not becoming a victim. That’s how ingrained this thought pattern has become in our society. Think about that:
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