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Apart from sending state officials to help the suicidal people to once and for all accomplish their spontaneous wish created by a brain malfunction? Maybe check
by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Apart from sending state officials to help the suicidal people to once and for all accomplish their spontaneous wish created by a brain malfunction? Maybe check how other countries do this, where less people get shot by police for whatever reason (in which I don't take sides, the cops are only the last elements in a much longer chain and have to deal with everything that went wrong long before as the "solution of last resort - by force").
I also find it fascinating that responses seen in other comments sound completely reasonable (and are reasonable, given the chosen perspective) when they justify that what happened is exactly what had to happen (cops may be called to dangerous places, and it's a fact that that happens to them all the time). Yet, when looking at it from a different, much farther away perspective from a country where I would expect such police behavior only in very few extreme cases (and only carried out by special police forces, of which there are not many), it does not seem reasonable at all. Again, I understand the cops, I might act just like them if I had to live their life. So something other than police tactics may be a causal reason, because if cops actually are in danger routinely than their measures make sense.
- iainmerrick 8y agoLike so many other situations, I think this can be cast as a Prisoner's Dilemma. :) All else being equal, whether or not other people have guns, you'll be safer if you have a gun. But that apparently rational argument leads to everybody having guns, which is much less safe for everybody. But there's an extra twist -- you are actually not safer with a gun all else being equal, because you or your loved ones could be killed by that gun through accident, suicide, etc.