And with all the popular media espousing a life of selfless monogamy.

If only home teams had some kind of advantage, like sleeping in one’s own bed, more familiarity with the court and the surrounding geometry and a crowd of people who want you to win.

Steph Curry is the typical American result: a rich kid succeeds because he has the best food, best schools, can afford any piece of kit and attend any camp, and has a basketball court in the yard of his mansion.

Counterpoint: he can fight better from the outside and trespassing is still trespassing.

Grunting and screaming are two vastly different things.

Very well said.

You have been blinded by your hatred.

Unless you are a cop yourself, how is this relevant to the stress cops face?

Pseudo-anonymity is a two-edged sword.

Absolutely. It’s a direct result of our fetishizing our military combined with their lack of development beyond our lower mammalian impulses, i.e. pack mentality.

Even the good cops are condition to put their brotherhood first. That’s why you rarely see them whistle blow on the bad ones.

Because, on the whole, it isn’t THAT dangerous out there.

<[ That's gotta be sarcasm, right? ]>

I have said it elsewhere here:

Only by the ridiculously warped standards of 2018 would seeking the truth of our large-scale impact upon ourselves and our Earth be considered “weird” but I wear the honest truth as a badge of honor.

Osama bin Laden hasn’t spoiled Muslims.

A fair and diplomatic response, sir/ma’am.

The idea that we, as citizens, should just automatically “respect and support” the individuals because of their chosen profession, is utterly ridiculous.

People who know everything about everyone know nothing about anything or anyone.

Yeah, I played a bit of CS online, the kids just wasting me mercilessly.