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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I find this to be non-responsive. But I think my post was misleading. I should have said:
I really wish someone would explain this mindset, because it applies to cops as well as soldiers. The willingness of people who are not cops or soldiers to completely overlook lots of awful, terrible shit done by certain cops or soldiers because cops and soldiers generally take these jobs knowing they are dangerous jobs just makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's like, because you took a dangerous job that is often underappreciated, civilians think you should excuse or overlook acts that amount to crimes for anyone else.
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These ornate parades held for police killed in action have always confused me. What's the fucking logic there? Guy takes risky job, gets killed doing it, and we're supposed to be uniquely appalled? It's kind of like acting surprised when you hear somebody died base jumping. I know it sounds cold, but, "buy the ticket, take the ride."
I'm uniquely appalled when some mutant offs a bunch of kids with a sub-machine gun, a cabal of illiterate religious jerk-offs start trading women as sex slaves and beheading people in the streets... or when some roided up cop chokes a guy to death for selling a cigarette. I'm appalled when we burn billions on wars predicated on knowing lies, search our citizens' emails, and funnel a pack of degenerates at Goldman one hundred cents on the dollar payouts from AIG where they should been given nickels.
I am a bit shocked and disturbed when I see millions of half-wits arguing a whistleblower like Snowden should go to jail, or excusing the expenditure of $80mil on torture that got us nothing. These things are uniquely upsetting. But a cop getting shot in the line of duty? It's sad. It's terrible. But it's also not unexpected. In fact, it's a downright common and predictable occurrence. And if you don't think it is, if you think it's some nearly inconceivable horror, you're more emotion than intelligence... which means you are part of the problem.
Similarly...
"[O]f course, if you’re fighting for your country and you get shot or hurt, it’s a terrible tragedy, of course, of course, but maybe, may be if you pick up a gun and go to another country and you get shot, it’s not that weird. Maybe if you get shot by the dude, you were just shooting at, it’s a tiny bit your fault." - Louis C.K., "Of Course. But maybe..."
