if you create a situation where the cop does not feel safe
You reach for your license 'too fast' - cop does not feel safe Acorn falls on car - cop doesn't feel safe You are boiling water at home - cop does not feel safe You are writhing in pain underneath their boot - cop does not feel safe
US cops are literally brainwashed into feeling like the public is a threat to them. They are wired to look for a reason to escalate.
In the US, unlike most other countries, medical doctors are most at risk for suicide.
The book 'Determined' makes a great point on how schizophrenia victims have been mistreated throughout history.
I read somewhere that one of the effects is abstention from treatment. Essentially the idea that, sometimes, to do nothing is better than blasting the body with macro doses of foreign chemicals. This seems to be the case here.
Ahh yes, the freedom loving state. Texas. That's right.
Yeah I feel you. To echo your last sentence, there's that old study of money leading to increased happiness but only up to a certain point (I think it was like 75k USD pre-covid)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/rich-less-empathetic-than-poor-study-says.html
To add to this, there's been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.
My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.
There's a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.
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