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[Mark J]

17 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Speak in the active voice. Who shot who? Who was dangerous to who? 

The copper shot the person who had been stabbing people at the synagogue. The guy who had stabbed people was dangerous. 

[AHPP]

10 minutes ago, Mark J said:

The guy who had stabbed people was dangerous. 

 

To whom?

You wouldn’t call a fireman dangerous to fire. There’s an amount of bias in language. 

[Mark J]

8 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

To whom?

You wouldn’t call a fireman dangerous to fire. There’s an amount of bias in language. 

Well, that's a bit of a daft question. He was dangerous to the people he had stabbed and seemingly intended to stab. Or am I missing your point?

[AHPP]

Half. I’m being half cryptic but I’m also pointing out there’s bias in language used to describe this kind of thing. The passive tense is commonly used as propaganda by a wannabe truth-definer. Say the guy doing the stabbing was right to do so. You wouldn’t call him dangerous. You’d say he was stabbing someone. Ruminate on it. View all news through that lens.

[Johnsond]

51 minutes ago, Mark J said:

That's probably standard. It seems to pretty clear that the person shot was the one who was dangerous. 
It's probably not a bad thing for the copper to have some time off after having to deal with that situation.

That’s what they are paid for and trained to do. 
I’d imagine he will sleep well tonight once the adrenaline subsides. 

Edited 54 minutes ago by Johnsond