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Overnight Open Thread (8-13-2015) - Fleeing the Scene EditionFYI I'll be on vacation in Cancun all next week so you'll have to...make do...somehow. The other cobs swear they'll fill in for me but then that's what they always say. Note that this has absolutely nothing to do with the ongoing police investigation. Adios losers! It's impossible to simply skim over the irony of someone demanding to know why gas prices are so high in the very same press release where they push for an additional ten percent tax on oil extraction. Does Tom Steyer actually understand where gas comes from? As always, if the legal system fails to remedy abuse, people may pursue extralegal remedies. That's not a good thing for a country, but once the law looks like a tool of oppression rather than justice, it loses its hold. I realized the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. Ace linked this the other day. It's worth reading if you haven't already. Occasionally Americans debate the correctness of beliefs and practices - political, moral, social. But not very often. Most Americans, or so one would judge from social media anyway, are Bulverists: they already know who is right and who isn't, so all they need to debate is why the people who get things wrong - so, so wrong - do so. Also: 'Vindictive Protectiveness' and the New PC Related: Where the Will to Power Derives from Victimhood Unarmed Perpetrators and Getting Shot by Police John Hinderaker points out that it's incredibly easy to avoid being shot by the police when you are unarmed: This is the point I really want to make: the constant emphasis on police shootings of *unarmed* men that we see in the press is, for the most part, crazy. If you are a perp, or a suspect, or an inoffensive person walking down the street, you may be unarmed, but the police officer is not. Nor, in most cases, will he have any immediate way to know whether you are armed or not. If you attack him, what do you expect him to do? Challenge you to an arm-wrestling match? He is entitled to use deadly force to defend himself. Attacking a police officer rarely ends well. Likewise with fleeing a police officer who is ordering you to stop. And one of the poisonous effects of the media's lies about 'hands up, don't shoot' is to encourage the belief among some that they're going to be shot by the police anyway so why not fight them. 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action "In the era before gunpowder, all killing was of necessity done hand to hand. For a Greek or Roman warrior to slay his enemy, he had to get so close that there was an equal chance that the enemy's sword or spear would kill him. This produced an ideal of manly virtue - andreia, in Greek - that prized valor and honor as highly as victory." In his short book Do the Work, Pressfield relates a New Yorker cartoon that cleverly skewers our preference for thinking about things, rather than doing them:
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