Afraid to shoot...

[Sparko]

So you still miss that it was not an analogy.

Sure...

You have no idea what it is like to risk your life every day protecting strangers for low pay. You have no idea how hard the job is.[talking about cops]

I used to work as a sanitation worker and that job was very hard work. You had to be strong, tolerate the heat, and have an iron stomach. In fact, most people would either die from the strain of the work itself, or vomit their guts away. It certainly is not a job for everyone. But not once did I have the mindset that the work being very hard on me physically was an excuse to do my job poorly. No, I went to work and dealt with it because I was paid to do it.

[CMD]

I thought I was taking Starlight's downplaying of the seriousness of a physical beating using nothing but one's own body to an extreme so absurd that it had long ago left the source material behind and was currently residing right in the middle of Obvious Parody Town, but then I read the screwball thread, and I saw this (among other things):

If someone is trying to beat up a cop they are acting like a criminal and the cop has a right to defend himself.

Yes, but not with lethal force unless they are being attacked with a lethal weapon.

Apparently my posts were less of an "absurd extreme" and more of an "accurate representation."

[Cerebrum123]

I thought I was taking Starlight's downplaying of the seriousness of a physical beating using nothing but one's own body to an extreme so absurd that it had long ago left the source material behind and was currently residing right in the middle of Obvious Parody Town, but then I read the screwball thread, and I saw this (among other things):



Apparently my posts were less of an "absurd extreme" and more of an "accurate representation."

Or it was an accurate representation of an absurd extreme that goes by the username Starlight.