Darren Wilson

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I have reviewed the Darren Wilson interview and testimony this morning. This is an extremely emotional case for people, and when people are emotional, their ability to be logical and see the truth plummets. That’s scientific fact. I highly recommend reading up on neuroscience experiments that study emotion and reasoning, and how it affects our decision making process. You may be surprised to learn how your emotions will trump logic every time.

With that, sharing what I see as the truth right now will have little effect on people because I won’t change minds or get people to consider the elements I point out. Most people don’t work at delineating their emotions from reasoning. It’s a skill that takes a lot of practice to develop and do effectively. Hence, I will either confirm that my thoughts align with yours, or that they don’t, in which, you are likely to say I have lost it or missed it. And frankly, I see no point in doing that because every time I have done so in the past, the insults that get wielded in my direction made it clear it wasn’t worth my investment because I didn’t effect change for the good. Instead I caused lots of frustration and anger, bad feelings and insults. And that’s not productive.

So instead of alienating an audience on a polar and highly emotional topic, I would prefer to continue to discuss cases where people aren’t as emotionally invested, and we can have great discussions which foster growth and change.

I hope you can respect my decision.

Thank you,

Renee

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