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Well, they could try a tazer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08sndpw I'm not sure if you can listen to this (shame), so let me summarise: Alfie Moore is a British police sargent with 20ish years of experience, he was trained in martial arts, specifically how to put someone in a swan neck wrist lock "so long as they came at me slowly with a partially bent wrist" and in his career, so far, nobody has. The point is, it takes many years of dedicated training and specific circumstances to perform said wrist lock at full speed. A far more effective, and less time consuming, method is to learn how to persuade them not to attack in the first place; the art of fighting without fighting...

The part of the problem starts way before that, "It's OK to put a person in a choke hold, because..."

Of course we should, we can't find no-place; but we can find a better-place, even if you don't want to look...

And yet the serpent didn't care about the dress code. If we accept the NT is an explanation of the OT, then the sermon on the mount comes into play; the birds in the field didn't care about the dress code either. It seems to me that the message here is, because of our knowledge we spend to much of today, worrying about tomorrow. https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/

That's tomorrow, today is when I'm alive and that's the only chance I've got, to live...

I like that +1, (Edit) but if the tumor is not malignant, why do we need to care, or cure? Give it time... Ozymandias. 😉

I understand the analogy, especially as time allows the tumor to spiral out of control. But, forgive me, it seems a little arogant. I prefer to think of it in terms of a cure, like a perscription/course of antibiotics that we fail to finish. Until we need it again, "look on ye mighty and despair". It could be argued that mindfulness is an emerging modern variation. God is just a distraction, since we've filled the gaps.

MEH, what can you do, politics is designed to inspire fear, why else was satan invented...

I allways imagined they just understood what the Torah was trying to teach, hence Jesus, for want of a better name, said they don't need to abandon it; I can't remember the quote which has been used to discredit both, by taking it out of context. Essentially the message resonates through history, because we all need to stop seeing a future, that we've been primed to fear. https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/jesus-references-to-old-testament-scriptures/

I often wondered who the teacher was, John the Baptist seems more likely, but Jesus was more skilful in the art of PR...

That seems to be a constant in, most, religious text's/stories, when a great person explains why we don't need to be distressed. Edit/ and leads the way to a less stressful life. Nice post BTW +1

But that's the whole point, the system determines what a crime is. In victorian Britain many of the crimes the system chose, was biased against the poor; and before you jump on this J.C. America had a different system to perpetuate.

TBH I think the oral tradition might be slightly more reliable than text based. Text is so much harder to convey complex meaning and context is often lost so much more quickly (that's why teacher's are often needed to fill in the blanks). In terms of this thread, syntax and semantics, both reduce the reliability of text in just a few year's, culture moves so fast that my grandad would struggle to understand my son, without me to explain and vice verca (or viky verty as my son says).

Stu the cockatoo is new at the zoo...

Book's.

Soon after it was written down...

Just wondering...

Should I report him, Phi?

Don't you get it? I'm essentially espousing all live's matter, just first things first... 🙄

Indeed, and if those people are subject to systemic racism, the best chance is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other... 😉

Both you and Migl, seem to have missed the post where I suggested that all crimes, be tried with an even hand. That would seem to be a solution. We could try the old fashioned approach, as it pertains to cops and stack the deck, to ensure we get the bastards; but that would just lead to the police, revolting (police lives matter). No the best bet is we try the really old fashioned approach, write large by the founding father's, a fair trial for ALL.

So, what you're saying is "All lives matter"; haven't we got past that, yet?

Deepends on when they said cut!!! And when they stopped tolerating 'excessive force'...