I just cannot fathom the lack of survival instinct in that room. Not one person tries to run for cover/the corners, they just cower in their seats.
Sure maybe some think it's a bluff, like that guy councillor nearest the camera. But some of them are obviously terrified, but not one of them does a thing.
It's very easy to understand. You already know what happened. Nobody else in that room knew that at the time. They're just listening to someone talk and some other guy casually tosses something on the floor.
The woman nearest looks directly at the grenades in his hand as he pulls them out and pulls the pins. And almost everyone looks at them on the floor after he tossed them. I just assume most people at least in a wartime Slavic country to know the idea of grenades quite well. Like I say some of them look way too scared for "guy dropped something heavy", it just translates into cowering instead of any real kind of action.
The only people who fight or flight are those who train their responses and reaction times to those kinds of situations. Otherwise the average person does not have the developed senses and reflexes to do anything within the short amount of time afforded for a random attack to occur.
there's a fourth response "flop" where you basically make like a fainting goat, but yeah adrenaline does weird things, even in situations that are completely safe, where you know you can't get hurt adrenal responses can fuck you up big time
I just cannot fathom the lack of survival instinct in that room. Not one person tries to run for cover/the corners, they just cower in their seats.
Sure maybe some think it's a bluff, like that guy councillor nearest the camera. But some of them are obviously terrified, but not one of them does a thing.
It's very easy to understand. You already know what happened. Nobody else in that room knew that at the time. They're just listening to someone talk and some other guy casually tosses something on the floor.
The woman nearest looks directly at the grenades in his hand as he pulls them out and pulls the pins. And almost everyone looks at them on the floor after he tossed them. I just assume most people at least in a wartime Slavic country to know the idea of grenades quite well. Like I say some of them look way too scared for "guy dropped something heavy", it just translates into cowering instead of any real kind of action.
Fight, flight, or freeze:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/fight-flight-or-freeze-response
The only people who fight or flight are those who train their responses and reaction times to those kinds of situations. Otherwise the average person does not have the developed senses and reflexes to do anything within the short amount of time afforded for a random attack to occur.
there's a fourth response "flop" where you basically make like a fainting goat, but yeah adrenaline does weird things, even in situations that are completely safe, where you know you can't get hurt adrenal responses can fuck you up big time