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The Evolution of Self-Protection
It is probably more likely that the nervous system would respond in a fawning way or a flop way than maybe a fight or flight response. So you still find now even that you'll kind of like be jolted into freezing or fawning at the sort of smallest stimulus. And it does make sense actually from an evolutionary perspective that you would learn to do that self-protective thing because actually there are circumstances where freezing is the safest thing. We can never blame our response for fawning, trying to people please our way out of a situation or getting very submissive or freezing or whatever we do and punching somebody or whatever it is. Our nervous system always chooses what