Author and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson analyzed the impact of the “Daniel Binney Effect” on people's willingness to put themselves in danger to help others after Binney was found not guilty of murder. New York.
“I think that's a good example of someone acting out of character,” Peterson said of Danielle Penny, a 26-year-old former Marine and architecture student who encountered a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia. Kattar screams death threats while high on a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2.
“It's dangerous to intervene in a violent situation and you have to be somewhat of a hero to do that and Benny clearly falls into that category and that's something that sets him apart very strongly,” Peterson told The Ingraham Angle.
Author and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson analyzed the impact of the “Daniel Penny Effect” on people's willingness to put themselves in danger to help others. (Fox News)
Benny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the subway strangulation death of Jordan Neely.
Peterson spoke of the “Daniel Penny Effect” as a result of Penny's treatment by the New York City justice system. He said that while he doesn't think people will behave significantly differently as a result of the Penny case, he still says the political left in the United States mistakenly believes “Victim status of criminals“.
“It's a very bad idea,” Peterson said. “It's not right. There are a lot of people in severe social and economic distress who are not criminals.”
Comments about The case of Danielle Penny He continued: “It is relevant… in terms of criticizing the left insofar as the left treats people as victims. But it is not relevant. I think the Danielle Penny case will have very little impact in the medium or long term.” A term for people's tendency to help.”
Danielle Penny has been found not guilty in the subway choking trial
Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran and architecture student, encountered a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia who stormed the train screaming death threats. (Rashid Omar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
“This is what happens when you treat criminals like they're victims,” Peterson said.
“Criminals are rational actors, by and large, and they take risk into action as we saw in California with the emergence of waves of shoplifting after the California government very foolishly decided that any shoplifting under $1,000 would not be prosecuted,” he said. . “Anyone with a criminal inclination would feel like this is a field day.”
“The best thing governments can do is increase the likelihood that criminals will actually suffer the consequences of their actions and stop treating them as if they were victims,” Peterson said.
