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Saving a house is not the same thing as saving children. People risk or sacrifice themselves to save others with some frequency. Just a week before Ulvade, Dr.
by gensym 4y ago
Saving a house is not the same thing as saving children.
People risk or sacrifice themselves to save others with some frequency. Just a week before Ulvade, Dr. John Chang gave his life to tackle the shooter at his church in Orange County. Bravery exists. The belief in bravery is why we give special privileges to law enforcement. If we knew that police would never put themselves in harm's way to save children, we would never tolerate law enforcement as it currently exists.
- kube-system 4y agoDr. John Chang is a one-in-a-million hero. If we hired every one-in-a-million hero as a police officer in the US, we'd have 165 police officers. There's about 700,000 police officers in the US, and we can barely hire them as it is.
- ryathal 4y agofirefighters routinely walk through burning buildings to find and save people, they have safety rules, but this is never a safe action.
- tialaramex 4y agoBravery is why you give people medals, it makes no sense to give Police Officers privileges on the guess that maybe some of them will be brave. In the Commonwealth a police officer would likely get a George Cross for extraordinary bravery (the Victoria Cross is the medal for extraordinary bravery in the face of the enemy and so accordingly it is awarded to the military). New Zealand police officer Stewart Guthrie was awarded (posthumously) in 1990 for confronting a gunman who'd killed a dozen people. Guthrie warned him, "Stop or I shoot" but the gunman shot him first. But of course such awards are rare because such events are rare in Commonwealth countries.