When most people are in an intense situation (out of rest or digest mode), you generally enter a mode to either fight (and hope you get out the victor) or flight (run and hope you get away). What about Cower (and likely die or just spend time relapsing till your body (if ever) returns into a “safe to restart” mode) Think about a person freezing up to the point they go into a coma or cowering and muttering complete nonsense. Would that be under flighting mentally?
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Also, remember that applying intent to biology is poor practice. Evolution isn’t guided and the only criteria for a trait/behavior to be selected is that everyone who carries that trait didn’t die before breeding.
Behavior categories like fight/flight/freeze are arbitrary and many people will take actions that don’t evenly fit into them.
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