Perhaps the police officer simply thinks that your average person will easily do dangerous things like shaking someone off their car without thinking much of it, but will not take a knife to another’s guts. Therefore, the car incident would not mark the man as unusually dangerous.
There is no mathematically canonical way to distinguish between trade and blackmail, between act and omission, between different ways of assigning blame. The world where nobody jumps on cars is as safe as the one where nobody throws people off cars. We decide between them by human intuition, which differs by memetic background.
Perhaps the police officer simply thinks that your average person will easily do dangerous things like shaking someone off their car without thinking much of it, but will not take a knife to another’s guts. Therefore, the car incident would not mark the man as unusually dangerous.
Perhaps. That is something that I personally would disagree with, but respect that it is the place of the officer to make that judgement.
The bigger issue I see is how the officer distinguished between fact an opinion. She called things like a knife or gun “facts” and the car thing merely my opinion. I worry that by drawing hard lines like these, she isn’t giving serious enough consideration to the danger that the guy Alex might pose. Eg. “That’s not hard evidence or facts. Therefore I’m going to dismiss it and not think more about it.”
Perhaps the police officer simply thinks that your average person will easily do dangerous things like shaking someone off their car without thinking much of it, but will not take a knife to another’s guts. Therefore, the car incident would not mark the man as unusually dangerous.
There is no mathematically canonical way to distinguish between trade and blackmail, between act and omission, between different ways of assigning blame. The world where nobody jumps on cars is as safe as the one where nobody throws people off cars. We decide between them by human intuition, which differs by memetic background.
Perhaps. That is something that I personally would disagree with, but respect that it is the place of the officer to make that judgement.
The bigger issue I see is how the officer distinguished between fact an opinion. She called things like a knife or gun “facts” and the car thing merely my opinion. I worry that by drawing hard lines like these, she isn’t giving serious enough consideration to the danger that the guy Alex might pose. Eg. “That’s not hard evidence or facts. Therefore I’m going to dismiss it and not think more about it.”