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As a black male who grew up in the streets. Form hustling to homeless. I was always taught not to trust cops. Being homeless I ran into a lot cops, some good some bad. The ways the good ones have impacted my view towards police officers far outweighs the way the bad ones have. Yes I have experienced racism, profiling, abuse of power etc. But I have also experienced compassion, words of support, fairness. I have been treated like a human more so by cops then the passerbys. One even took me to the DMV let me skip the line during COVID so I could get a free replacement ID. Most definitely bad cops are an annoying thorn in societys flesh. And all person no matter what color, creed or race should be held accountable for their actions. But society does not give the good cops their well deserved respect and attention. Instead we choose to focus on the negativity that surounds everything in our lifes.
Itās wild that we get reward responses from negative things and that causes us to continue to seek out those negative things, even if we donāt consciously realize why we are drawn to them. I always view it as the balance of existence, thereās bad in the good and good in the bad and all that.
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Thereās a book called āexistential kinkā which is basically about exactly this. Humans will actively seek out painful things because there is a source of pleasure in pain. I always kind of compare it the feeling of pressing hard on a bruise because it feels good for some reason. These brain things are wild!