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> In many countries

Those countries include the US btw. The rules are basically the same for all of them, that they have to have not just made a mistake, but made an unreasonable mistake. It is often hard to lose a license this way as you need to balance just shit happening, things going wrong when you made the right (or a reasonable) choice vs when you made a gross mistake. And of course, the conditions are based on decisions made a priori, not post hoc. Because post hoc is a dangerous game to play given so much more clarity.

e.g. for Doctors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628513/

Of course, this doesn't say anything about cops or the state of affairs here in the US. What surprises me more is that despite what many think, there is quite a lot of distrust for the police.

What someone needs to tell me is how most Americans have "very little" to no confidence in Congress and they keep getting elected. Its pretty universally agreed that no one wants a geriatric in the White House yet here we are. How we distrust all our institutions and yet continue to prop them up.

At this point I'm no longer mad at them. I mad at us. We are being enablers. Even down to local elections I hear so much uproar and low polling rates and yet watch these officials get reelected. I don't think it is foul play because I hear people talk about how they hold their nose while voting. City, county, state, or federal, it is all the same.

Clearly we've made our own bed, but we just don't want to lie in it. If you're going to half ass your job you can't complain about how shitty everything is. Before you go blaming others, take a long look in the mirror. I'm sure __you__ are better than that, just the way __you__ can't be manipulated by propaganda and how __you__ can't be tricked by scams. Clearly, we've been played. Clearly we're still being played. So stop blaming your neighbor or pointing to others until you look in the mirror. We all need to do it if we're going to get our shit together. Because we're all in this together, for better or worse.

But what I fear most is that because we'd rather stroke our egos to claim our own team is best we won't ever realize that it is this action that creates the radicals. It is my fear that we won't solve problems before they are problems. That we believe so much in "don't fix what ain't broke" that we won't ever perform basic maintenance. It is far more expensive to fix what is broken than to fix what isn't. My fear is we won't fix things until the streets run red. And that's my biggest fear, that we, the people, won't realize that the blood isn't just on the hands of the elites, but that it is on ours too. We are happy to play the mafia boss who has fully convinced himself and matter-of-factly asks "do you see blood on my hands?"

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...



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