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Escalation is driven by emotion, power, and reason, with adrenaline pushing actors step by step rather than straight from insult to gunfire.
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Adrenaline
Escalation is driven by emotion, power, and reason, with adrenaline pushing actors step by step rather than straight from insult to gunfire.
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"...is reason or logic, okay? And what drives people up is adrenaline. In other words, it is important. It's possible to skip the escalation..."
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"...he is killing, okay? Because it's war and he's full of adrenaline. But then something catches his eye, alright? He strikes down a soldier..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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