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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by cogman10 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:11AM (#35454551)
"Why am I putting out this wildfire? A new one is just going to start later. It's pointless to fight these fires when year after year they just keep coming back".

It's the job they chose and trained to do. If they don't like it, they can get a new job.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by kardianos on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:31AM (#35454896)
That is a terrible analogy.

Someone is starting these fires. The police go in and take care of it, the DAs literally release them with zero or nearly zero consequences to the offender and the next day (often literally) they are starting "fires" again.

We are human, not machines, we are not idealized automatons.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by josephcsible on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:38PM (#35456874)
"year after year"? People have gotten arrested and then released to commit more crimes with a turnaround of less than a day. It'd be fantastic if they all got even 1 year in prison. A better analogy would be that there's no sense wasting a small handheld fire extinguisher on a large wildfire.
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