No Tasing, but Dehydration OK
Was listening to a radio show yesterday and they were discussing how protest groups are asking that police not use tasers. One person said, "can't they use nets?". Ah yes, the old net gun. Didn't Batman have one of those?
I'm impressed by the compassion some of my fellow citizens have. For all the derogatory things we say about our time in some areas there have been remarkable strides made. But it is surreally selective.
It's as if there is the huge wellspring of compassion that is suppressed in certain areas and so comes welling out in the less likely places such as pain-free guarantees for those resisting arrest. But what is surprising is how there is no prioritization, no sense of proportion. Witness Terri Schiavo. Witness babies, for whom the womb used to be the safest place in the world but now is the deadliest. I was thinking maybe it's part and parcel of the democracy experience which teaches that every "body" (including animals and criminals) are entitled to total equality and that hierarchies of any kind are to be shunned, but that wouldn't explain the lack of sympathy for unborn babies. Rev. Sharpton on O'Reilly the other night could not offer the least bit for a baby eight months in the womb. It's still strikes me as odd at how illogical today's compassion appears. On the other hand, passions often aren't all that logical.
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