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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Tasers 101 is that tasers are relatively accurate and painful. There is a greater likelihood of a taser hitting different parts of one person's body than the taser accidentally hitting the wrong person. The latter will only happen if the police officer had a bad aim or someone jumped in front of the person about to be tased. In the former instance, police officers should not use a taser if they can not effectively reach the target. Police officers tend to be trained not to use tasers and pepper spray if they may accidentally get the wrong person.
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Alrighty, well that clears that up
as always, I'm interested to see how this turns out.
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I was talking about myself and not about you. But, you actually implied that your positive experiences with police officers explain your trust and therefore your tendency not to challenge them. I disagree with that implication and urge everyone to consider how the experiences of others can shape your experiences.
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But see that's the thing: for me, the experiences of others in my life are mostly positive. I am an ROTC cadet so I'm actively seeking a position of authority that is distrusted by many, several of my friends are in the process of trying to become police officers/military, my best friend's mom is a police officer, etc. Because of this, the negative experiences I've heard about in history or on the news seem few and far between compared to all the positivity I know. I say this knowing that I could be totally delusional and ass backwards about police officers and in the big picture, it could be that positive experiences like the ones I know are what are in fact few and far between. This is where I'm coming from, as I grow up and try and see the big picture. Check back in a few years, there's always a possibility that I could be saying the complete opposite.
With the "talking about me and not you" part, I incorrectly assumed that your comment about not questioning authority was directed at me since I started the whole perspectives derailing. Sorry 'bout it!