(July 10, 2016 at 6:59 am)ignoramus Wrote: [...]We all do it. We all subconsciously profile. But we don't kill people based on our conclusions.
If that police officer was not a psychopath, but genuinely believed that his life was in serious risk, then something has failed him.
Either his training, or the govt, or his job (overwork, underpaid, stressed, low morale, etc)[...]
I imagine, that if I was responsible for upholding the law in a country where pretty much everyone I ever approached might have a gun and therefore might potentially be able to kill me in a blink of an eye - I'd be on the edge and quick on the trigger too. Not saying that's the only reason - but it can't be denied, that it plays a part.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
