It continued like this though

With understanding LLM, I started to understand some people and their “reasoning” better. That’s how they work.

Hello darkness my old friend

Heisenberg exploded? The scientist or the one from Breaking Bad?

Travelers

Just based on the facts from what information we have, I fully agree. The story would have to change significantly in order to show anything other than exemplary display of good self-defence principles:

• avoid being in a shady location - check
• when getting in a sticky situation anyway, attempt to flee / defuse (good judgement on what to try first) - check
• if still in the threats phase: back off a bit to clearly demonstrate that you are not the aggressor, support that verbally - check
• If it is clear that the attacker ignores your pleas, do the minimum damage to STOP the attack safely. Based on that principle, he could have pulled & shot a lot sooner, but apparently wanted to be more defensive & nice than most would have been - check

You should not allow a verbally aggressive person to stay at a distance where they could land a punch or use a concealed knife at any time, especially after you backed off already. Try articulating near a cop’s face and see what (rightfully) happens.