So in general you'll be experiencing fear of accepting the truth? So to avoid the truth that, "Whether he really is your close friend who wouldn't put his life above yours and thus won't pull the trigger or not?", you'll be happy to pull the trigger thus accepting death knowing/assuming that he wouldn't have pulled the trigger?
Oh I'd feel terrible after. I'd go through a lot of things trying to justify it to myself. I'd wonder if I should have let him/her kill me, what their life could have been had they lived, etc. I don't think people that say "I'd let them kill me" are doing anything irrational. There's no way to know if I could even bring myself to even raise the gun, let alone shoot. But in terms of the most "rational" thought would be to put your own survival over the other person's , so I'd shoot the other person.
That's quite a instinctive response there. Good.
In a way, you won't be as calm as to talk with him/her at all. Try to imagine the situation clearly.> I would try to speak to the person, try to figure out their character while at the same time figure out their story and I'm selfless so if the person's character is innocent, understanding and kind I'll kill myself w/o hesitation! However shall the person show me negative emotions by showing acts of hatred towards me, for these kinds of people I will kill them w/o hesitation!
> Also, I'll either die happy knowing my death was done for A Selfless cause! Or I walk away knowing that Humanity has one less trash to deal with..
Yeah, just one. He'll/She'll die knowing that you weren't his close friend and put your life above his/her in exchange of you comforting yourself that he/she is your best friend. So in the end, it's a selfish response anyway.
Hmm....okay.
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This is more than just an ego assessment. It sounds like bravado to say that people with a low self-esteem would be more likely to allow themselves to die. An inflated self-esteem is grounded in uncertainty, and therefore more likely to feel such fear that they would act in self preservation. Whereas someone with a truly secure sense of being would understand their place in the world, know that the individual is not as important as the whole, and not fear death to the same degree as someone who's ego was enlarged to protect their insecurities. Look at Kohlberg stages of development. Are you proposing that people like Jesus of Nazareth, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Boenhoffer, or Thomas More gave their life for their beliefs because they were just crippled with low-self esteem?
