Me and a friend discussed this, as we were talking about how to potentially survive a homicidal mass murderer gone spree killing.
We were trying to see what would cause which emotional reaction in the killer.
For example, during the Utøya massacre, two of the survivors had actually faced him, and confronted him - they had communicated, and survived through communication:
One young boy told him that he was too young to die, and sternly told him that he had killed enough. This caused the killer to stop, and move on. The next one had simply shouted "Listen to me!" for then to beg "Don't shoot me!". The vast majority of the victims had, unfortunately, just broken down, and were in shock, mostly screaming and crying, or whimpering pleas that didn't emotionally affect the killer.
Either way, we came to the idea that confusion could probably either save you - or kill you, but it would be like a gamble - in a situation where death was otherwise almost certain. For example, a robot dance!
The backside of spontaneously going into a robot dance, would be that if he decided to just shoot you right down anyway, this would be an extremely silly way to die. But then again, would it really be more proper screaming and begging?
Then I begun thinking of the continuing implications of robot dancing. Not only would it confuse the killer, but the fleeing people too. They would suddenly be convinced - even relieved - that "it is all just an elaborate joke", untill he gets blasted down. Any surviving witness would be truly confused by this, because it would have been so memorable.
If identified, the dancing victim would leave very confused parents, and loved-ones.
"Why didn't he flee!? Why stop and robot-dance!? He never even robot-danced before!!!"
On the tomb-stone
"For some reason, he robot-danced"
DISCUSS!