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Earlier tonight as I was leaving work, I suddenly realized my wallet was missing. After racking my brain to try to recall when I last had it, retracing my steps and searching for over an hour, I found myself drawn to the logical but instinctively unbelievable conclusion of theft.
It was an uneasy feeling, being almost compelled to accept that it had been stolen as it was the only logical possibility I could invoke, even though it would force me to reevaluate those whom I would consequently have to regard as possible suspects.
But then I suddenly remembered that I had been down in the basement earlier this afternoon to do something, and had probably taken it out of my pocket and set it down to do something else and sure enough...there it was! Much to my relief.
Driving home it occurred to me that the same uneasy feeling of having to accept a logical, yet incredible conclusion *due to missing information*, may be analogous to a number of other social and political misunderstandings where one side is either missing vital info or premises.
If, for example, it is unquestionably accepted that police officers have a "duty" to arrest people who are drunk driving (or just drunk in public), then it might seem that the police were justified in killing Rayshard Brooks when he resisted arrest. But...
...if that premise is opened up and rejected, then other answers readily come to mind. What gets passed off by the identity politics monsters on the Left as "systemic racism" is really just a second order effect of non-racist, but nonetheless over aggressive policing.
The enforcement of DUI laws is perhaps the perfect example of over aggressive policing; the arrest of someone on the criminal charge of doing something which *might* lead to terrible consequences. I've argued elsewhere, from reading the National Police statistics here in Taiwan..
...that the 2013 changes in Taiwan's DUI laws and policing are likely ineffective, are an irrational response to public anguish and hysteria partially whipped up by the media, and should be reconsidered. Essentially the problem is that lethal DUI incidents probably still occur...
... in similar numbers to what we saw in 2012. The more aggressive policing and harsher sentencing probably deter low level drinking and driving, but it's unlikely they have had any effect on the heavy drinker cases, which are the ones to worry about. I would think that a...
... similar thing is happening in the U.S. too, though not limited merely to DUI cases but all kinds of far more petty offenses. The missing information or missing premise is that Americans (and others too of course) are *monstrously overgoverned*. The inability to realize this..
...may be why so many self-styled "centrists" submit, though with some inarticulate discomfort, to the conclusion of the race-baiting identity politics monsters that what they are seeing is "systemic racism" when in fact the truth is both more complicated and... worse.