From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 16:12:15 MST
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:53:48AM -0600, S.J. Van Sickle wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, spike66 wrote:
>
> > Why the heck else would she stay with the
> > captors?
>
> Because he is a polygamist, she is a Mormon, and after he kidnapped her,
> they were "married". She may have truly believed that, despite being
> kidnapped, she was bound to him by the laws of God.
Could be. On the other hand,
http://www.reason.com/links/links031403.shtml makes a good point.
> See also "Stockholme Syndrome".
It is a classic. For those who don't care to google, the origin was the
"Norrmalmstorg drama" in 1973 when a number of people were kept hostage
in a bank vault after a robbery went wrong. Later they began to befriend
and defend their kidnappers.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/stockholm.html
I just finished watching _Dark City_, which has a nice resonance with
this thread.
Minds certainly can be remodeled (if crudely today). The important
thing is to remodel oneself and not let others do it.
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