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Originally Posted by driveway
You know, you're right. I chose my words poorly. The outcome is not satisfactory. A satisfactory outcome would have been no one hurt, suspect in custody.
However, I would take an alive, pistol whipped anyone over a dead anyone else pretty much 100 times out of 100, so I guess the better wording would have been "acceptable but unsatisfactory outcome."
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It's acceptable? Because the only unacceptable outcome is death? That's some interesting reasoning. I am sure you'd be saying the same thing if the police wrongfully shot and wounded an armed man, "Well, at least he didn't die... seems acceptable."