GuyWithQuestions
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Hello everyone. I thought this topic would be quite appropriate for strategies and tactics. Often you hear people say that you should avoid eye contact with suspicious looking people to avoid being attacked. Then others say that you should make eye contact to avoid being attacked. So how does it really work?
One time I heard some relatives in a discussion about this. My uncle was saying that people from where he lives know that if someone is acting suspicious or tries to talk to you (he lives in Boston), you shouldn't make eye contact with the person because once you do, there's something psychological that tells the person to assault you. Then my grandma said that she thought it was good to make eye contact because when she lived in Tucson, making eye contact with suspicious people let them know that you knew what was going on and that criminals want to get away with whatever they're doing and if you give them the message "I know what you're doing" they're less likely to do it. Then I've heard from some self-defense people that say it's good to make eye contact because criminals want easy victims and if the element of surprise is not there then they'll move on to easier victims and that various serial killers/rapists said they looked for victims who didn't look so alert. I've heard from some individuals, who have been battered or robbed, that it was when they took their eyes off of the person when the person actually rushed in to attack and/or steal something from them. Then on the other hand I've heard of people who have been attacked when someone asked some random question in a random place like "Do you know what time it is" and when they stopped to talk to the person they were attacked, which sounds like it may make sense in some ways because getting you to stop may help them position you better to be attacked. You also hear people all the time saying that if you're in a bad part of town you should avoid eye contact with suspicious looking people or if someone asks you a question not to look at them to avoid attack because there's something psychological to attack when you do that. So does anyone know about eye contact and victimology?
One time I heard some relatives in a discussion about this. My uncle was saying that people from where he lives know that if someone is acting suspicious or tries to talk to you (he lives in Boston), you shouldn't make eye contact with the person because once you do, there's something psychological that tells the person to assault you. Then my grandma said that she thought it was good to make eye contact because when she lived in Tucson, making eye contact with suspicious people let them know that you knew what was going on and that criminals want to get away with whatever they're doing and if you give them the message "I know what you're doing" they're less likely to do it. Then I've heard from some self-defense people that say it's good to make eye contact because criminals want easy victims and if the element of surprise is not there then they'll move on to easier victims and that various serial killers/rapists said they looked for victims who didn't look so alert. I've heard from some individuals, who have been battered or robbed, that it was when they took their eyes off of the person when the person actually rushed in to attack and/or steal something from them. Then on the other hand I've heard of people who have been attacked when someone asked some random question in a random place like "Do you know what time it is" and when they stopped to talk to the person they were attacked, which sounds like it may make sense in some ways because getting you to stop may help them position you better to be attacked. You also hear people all the time saying that if you're in a bad part of town you should avoid eye contact with suspicious looking people or if someone asks you a question not to look at them to avoid attack because there's something psychological to attack when you do that. So does anyone know about eye contact and victimology?