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3/ My answer: like cops, a large percent of their total compensation package is not in cash, but in the "honor" and "respect" that they think they're entitled to. When someone fails to give them that respect - respect that they were PROMISED by their own cultural mythology -
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4/ they feel like something has been stolen from them. It's not that giving them respect is optional. It's that the respect is THEIR PROPERTY and to not give it is to do actual harm to them, to steal from them.
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5/ When you do this to a cop ("contempt of cop"), they use the tools of their trade (fists, boots, truncheons, tasers) to beat the crap out of you. When you do this to a journalist, they use the tools if THEIR trade (words) to do the same.
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