Why? The man is a gigantic coward who would never harm anybody. He’s just desperate to stay on the good side of people in power and he gets terrified whenever a fellow sheep steps away from the herd. And he’s got some odd turn-ons, but we shouldn’t judge him for that.
Sure, if you’d like to redefine a word to not mean what it means, then yeah, it would mean something different.
However, violence is directly related to force, therefore, any application of force is violent. Since we legally disallow the threat of force as well as the actual application of force, generally, in our society, it follows that a threat of force is also violent.
Nothing you wrote there contradicts me unless we accept your new definition for “violence”. I see no compelling or even vaguely persuasive argument for why I should accept your new definition.
Do you have some potentially compelling or pesuasive arguments in support of your desired new definition?
If the shit ever hits the fan, Smapti will gladly turn in anyone in to whatever authority happens to be rounding people up. He could never be trusted by anyone, even his own family, to risk himself in any way if something went wrong.
Hmmmm. I’m sorry, but I don’t see that I wrote anything like what you said I wrote. I only spoke of detaining someone, not “any display of police authority”.
I’m afraid you’ve got me confused with someone else.
Make up your mind, if you’re capable of holding an opinion other than “Must respect the authorities so they won’t hurt me.” Either they were behaving with intent to evade a fine (which they plainly were not), or they were being irrational (again, not really). The reality is that they were afraid of these cops after being threatened. It’s ironic that you can’t relate to this since fear of cops seems to be the only emotion you can express.
I’m going to disagree there. He’s pretty going much straight from the Starving Artist playbook of “post the same thing over and over as if the entire rest of the thread vanishes with each new post.”
Correct. But those weren’t the options you presented. You came up with “insane” and “dishonest.”
I think pointing guns at a car full of children is insane.
Because according to your descriptions, they are insane despots who will resort to violence at the tiniest accidental provocation or sign of disrespect.