Look up "the excluded middle," dude. Not wanting your boat rocked is not the same as what you'll do when it is. It's not that hard a distinction to make.
Because you are reporting, or fantasizing, police malfeasance that I have no experience of and would never presume absent strong evidence.
No one is asking you to "presume," anything. An objective assessment of common standards and practices is all that's expected. But pray tell what "evidence" have you even considered? I just gave you an example of the cognitive dissonance, without which, a cop will not be allowed to advance higher than ticket writer.
It's awfully hard for me to give unqualified support to an entire profession when by all indications that profession requires, either by inclination or by training, one to be a high functioning sociopath.
Furthermore, it's awfully hard for me to give credence to your opinion regarding an entire profession when by all indications you've neither examined, nor had cause to question their occupational standards and practices.
But you don't have to take my word for it. Just watch a few YouTube videos of lawyers speaking on how (and why) to behave when stopped by the police.
Look it up yourself, dudette.
Nobody wants "their boat rocked", but you clearly describe police response as being to mess with those who do it, i.e.:
"I could go on about other practices that are taken for granted, yet antithetical to 'American' culture, values, and founding princ"
I'd call that police "messing with", you can call it whatever you wish.
papertyger: "I just gave you an example of the cognitive dissonance, without which, a cop will not be allowed to advance higher than ticket writer."
No, you cited only your own experience so I countered it with my experience, which has been different.
I don't recognize what you describe, outside the fantasies we see in some action-adventure movies or TV series.
papertyger: "It's awfully hard for me to give unqualified support to an entire profession when by all indications that profession requires, either by inclination or by training, one to be a high functioning sociopath."
I don't agree with your characterizations.
papertyger: "But you don't have to take my word for it.
Just watch a few YouTube videos of lawyers speaking on how (and why) to behave when stopped by the police."
Oh, well then, that absolutely clinches your argument.
If it's on YouTube then nobody can dispute it, must be 100% true 100% of the time.
So I surrender to your vastly superior facts & reasons.
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