Fighting back just lead to more violent retribution against those who were already being mistreated
This is what I meant when I said there's no "worse", just "different". In a concentration or extermination camp I think it's insane to blame any of the victims for what their captors do.
I don't think you understand what it's like to be constantly bullied and constantly on guard. At some point there is no concept of "worse". At some point there is only the sense of "literally anything in the world except this."
Willingness to stand up for oneself is not necessarily the same as one overestimating their ability to fight.
I was bullied regularly as a kid. I was no match at all for most of the bullies, they easily had strength, size, numbers, and fighting experience over me, but since the schools wouldn't or couldn't do a damn thing to protect me, especially when the bullies followed me well away from school grounds, the only choices I had were to either endure it, or to try to change the situation by standing up for myself. Even if I got my ass beat even worse just for standing up for myself, at the very least it made it clear to them that I was no longer guaranteed to be a frictionless target and that sometimes changes things for the better.
It's not about winning. It's about putting up the fight, because the potential outcomes of not fighting back aren't always much better than standing up for oneself.
That said, I personally wouldn't want to put a foreign trip in jeopardy by assaulting anyone if it wasn't an actual self defense situation, much like back at home. I'm just responding to this idea that willingness to fight is not the same thing as being overly confident that one will come out on top.
I've done it. Recently. Walked up with my palm covering the camera so it didn't see me while I approached, stepped to the side of it once I could, said I opt out, and went through.
The best therapist in the world can still end your career by causing your clearance to be revoked or rendering you unqualified for your unit’s mission.
I'm not in the military but I've worked with ts/sci cleared folks at a tech company, and this sounds odd to me. Can you explain a little more here? What's an example of a problem that, if discussed in therapy, could result in revocation of a security clearance?
This is what I meant when I said there's no "worse", just "different". In a concentration or extermination camp I think it's insane to blame any of the victims for what their captors do.