I was the one who originally posted about the door clicker, which I learned from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwzTeB6cXc&feature=fvwrel
There are a whole series of scenarios, some are decent, some I thought were stupid. The one with the door clicker is what stuck with me.
In terms of your question on quality of life, I am in condition yellow most of the time. At home, I am in condition eggshell (between white and yellow) unless I am asleep, in which case people could pound on the door and I would be blissfully ignorant. I think as life goes by, for me at least, these habits become ingrained so much that it doesn't seem like we are living in yellow, we just are, and it feels normal.
Overall, it is like rolling a dice. The odds that something violent could happen to any of us as individuals is fairly low. My Mom and Dad do not carry a gun, and cannot understand why I would, because "nothing has ever happened to us." A fair number of us on this board do carry, because we like the odds of violence a little lower, and better in our defense should violence occur. Perhaps that is what separates us from others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwzTeB6cXc&feature=fvwrel
There are a whole series of scenarios, some are decent, some I thought were stupid. The one with the door clicker is what stuck with me.
In terms of your question on quality of life, I am in condition yellow most of the time. At home, I am in condition eggshell (between white and yellow) unless I am asleep, in which case people could pound on the door and I would be blissfully ignorant. I think as life goes by, for me at least, these habits become ingrained so much that it doesn't seem like we are living in yellow, we just are, and it feels normal.
Overall, it is like rolling a dice. The odds that something violent could happen to any of us as individuals is fairly low. My Mom and Dad do not carry a gun, and cannot understand why I would, because "nothing has ever happened to us." A fair number of us on this board do carry, because we like the odds of violence a little lower, and better in our defense should violence occur. Perhaps that is what separates us from others.