well, yeah, you're probably right. my attitude is almost certainly influenced by the various comments I've seen in various places expressing the opinion that there was something less-than-gracious about the cops' not especially wanting to smile and say "well, okay, everything's okay." or "we're all Americans." or "how thoughtless to de…
well, yeah, you're probably right. my attitude is almost certainly influenced by the various comments I've seen in various places expressing the opinion that there was something less-than-gracious about the cops' not especially wanting to smile and say "well, okay, everything's okay." or "we're all Americans." or "how thoughtless to deny him his redemption." all of those are comments I've seen, and I think it's very, very easy to sit here, with the benefit of time gone by and physical distance and speculate about how the people should feel who had to live through that nightmare and, in many cases, will never stop reliving it. and that's aside from my residual skepticism, which I've already talked about. the larger issue of how much we should listen to women is one with which I will ALWAYS concur; living up to it isn't always easy. plus, needless to say, it still depends on which woman is saying what... we can all now rattle off several names of some very nasty and UNRELIABLE women (y'know...MTG, Boebert, Pierson, Powell, most of the women in TFF's retinue et al) whose "advice" leads straight to very unpleasant places.
Yeah, I don't think the officers are in the category of people who should think about their response. They have the perfect right to their positions. Those of us who weren't personally attacked have a different responsibility. If we want to get things back, we have to maintain the option of acceptance of an individual's repentance of bad behavior, when that repentance is shown to be more than just words, but also deeds.
well, yeah, you're probably right. my attitude is almost certainly influenced by the various comments I've seen in various places expressing the opinion that there was something less-than-gracious about the cops' not especially wanting to smile and say "well, okay, everything's okay." or "we're all Americans." or "how thoughtless to deny him his redemption." all of those are comments I've seen, and I think it's very, very easy to sit here, with the benefit of time gone by and physical distance and speculate about how the people should feel who had to live through that nightmare and, in many cases, will never stop reliving it. and that's aside from my residual skepticism, which I've already talked about. the larger issue of how much we should listen to women is one with which I will ALWAYS concur; living up to it isn't always easy. plus, needless to say, it still depends on which woman is saying what... we can all now rattle off several names of some very nasty and UNRELIABLE women (y'know...MTG, Boebert, Pierson, Powell, most of the women in TFF's retinue et al) whose "advice" leads straight to very unpleasant places.
Yeah, I don't think the officers are in the category of people who should think about their response. They have the perfect right to their positions. Those of us who weren't personally attacked have a different responsibility. If we want to get things back, we have to maintain the option of acceptance of an individual's repentance of bad behavior, when that repentance is shown to be more than just words, but also deeds.