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Re: Great Math Mystery

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Date 2015-04-17 11:47 +0200
Subject Re: Great Math Mystery
From "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com>
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>> In an altercation with the police, complying with their orders greatly
>> increases your chances of survival.
>
> Ah, the definition of a police state: where ordinary people, whether
> breaking the law or not, are forced by fear of death to obey the police at
> all times, whether the police are acting legally or not.

I think you are grossly mischaracterizing that sentence of the OP. He
simply makes an observation: in an altercation with the police,
complying with their orders greatly increases your chances of
survival. Is this observation/statement true or false? Based on
empirical data from the past 50 years (in the US and elsewhere) I'd
say it's true by a huge margin.

The OP didn't make any value judgements on this statement whether he
advocates for compliance or not, whether he encourages the
establishment of a police state or not, whether he thinks compliance
is a good thing or not.

For all we know he might be a flaming anarchist with a keen sense of
observing empirical facts.

Cheers,
Daniel



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Great Math Mystery Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-04-16 17:15 -0400
  Re: Great Math Mystery Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-17 10:47 +1000
    Re: Great Math Mystery Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-17 01:56 +0100
      Re: Great Math Mystery Matthew Barnett <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-04-17 03:34 +0100
    Re: Great Math Mystery "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2015-04-17 11:47 +0200
      Re: Great Math Mystery alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-04-17 10:23 +0000
      Re: Great Math Mystery Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-18 01:03 +1000
        Re: Great Math Mystery Ron Adam <ron3200@gmail.com> - 2015-04-17 14:16 -0400
  Re: Great Math Mystery Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-04-17 10:56 +1000

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