Re: Not always joking, it seems

In article <fq2c6d$v9$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, pullo <pullo004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Jay E. Morris" <morrisj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>news:47c36a3d$0$16647$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Knowing he'd have to reload, knowing there is no infinite capacity 
>> magazine,
>
>While I can imagine people who might freeze in a crisis situation I've 
>bnever met anyone who believed in an infinite capacity handgun, outside
of 
>[OBSF] Star Trek phasers.

However, having no idea of the capacity means it might as well be
infinite.

> Apologies. I misread the intent WRT to reload time. I still fail to see 
>what effect knowing exactly how long it takes to reload, even assuming
that 
>impossibility due to the vagaries of the individual, would effect the 
>actions of an intervener.

If I know I have 10 seconds, I'm a lot more likely to attack than if I
think I have 2 (given that I could reach him in 4 seconds).

> In the real world someone might decide to act during a reload. Knowing
the 
>exact particulars of reloading  don't don't really enter into it, IMO. 

Other people decide based on what they know and believe.  I can't
predict those things.

Seth