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Originally Posted by wooohooo
I honestly would rather get tased and learn my lesson than be in a walking body cast for a few months
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Those are the only two choices? Yeesh.
This is a false dilemma--the choices aren't "tase him or beat him senseless." If they were, then every time I meet a cop I have to obey every order he gives me or I'll be tased--and when that happens, I should be happy because he didn't beat me up with his nightstick. Sorry, that's not the society I live in.
I still haven't heard an answer to the most important question--how does the threat to public safety posed by naked dude outweigh the
serious health and safety risk posed by taser use?
The assumption seems to be: "well, it's better than beating him up." But ordinarily, cops
don't beat people up unless their behaviour is dangerous somehow. Naked guy wasn't all that dangerous. They
wouldn't have beaten him up--that was my point. But taser use is okay? Why?
I'm just saying tasers aren't there to offer a convenient alternative to cops who don't feel like subduing a suspect by conventional means. I can tell I'm alone here, but I really feel like there's some tortured logic going on here.