There's a certain sense of, "if I can't do it, I can't make someone else do it".īut if that's the case then we need to drop a lot of the pretence to traditional policing cops have right now. I honestly don't have a problem with that though! I don't think we have to force people to gamble their lives for others. but the cop was just so out of shape that shortly after realizing they couldn't keep up with this not very fast person they ended up tasering this person on asphalt.Ī fully grown adult out cold at running pace straight into asphalt because a cop is so out of shape they can't chase a person who mooned them The thing is the lady was clearly let go before that fairly stupid act, and last I checked mooning someone doesn't imply you've suddenly become a lethal threat. It even extends to more casual cases, the other day there was a video of a lady mooning an officer. Since pretty much every time I hear cop by suicide it's apparent, and people still say "well what would *you* do" like that's the smoking gun. Like I'm an untrained bumpkin, unfortunately if someone had a knife and I had a gun, I can't really think of much more than shooting them.īut somewhere along the line the standard for police dropped down to the standard for me? The untrained bumpkin? It's weird reading that when I was a kid I was constantly told cops are heroes because they put their lives on the line where most wouldn't or couldn't. > someone charging an armed cop with a knife or a similar suicidal incident These differences exist because there simply isn't this one unified "Western culture" that some people stipulate to be a thing. It's also a thing in the US, yes, but it never was on a comparable mainstream level like in Germany. The original DOS Doom game was only "unbanned" in 2011.Ī lot of violent movies and TV shows are only aired in censored versions in Germany, yet on these very same channels, during late night, there regularly is completely barrier free soft-core erotica content that for many Americans would qualify as "porn".Īnother example is the naturism/nudist culture that very much has a old and somewhat popular tradition in Germany as FKK. In games like Command&Conquer, Half-Life and others, whole enemy units and models were replaced to appease the German rating boards. But it very much is, at least in a "Western world" context which usually also includes Europe, were attitudes to violence and nudity can be completely reversed to the US.įor one of the most prominent examples, just compare the US to Germany: For decades Germany censored very mundane video games, like Counter Strike or Doom, for their depiction of violence.
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