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What I mean by "reality" is a job where objective reality was non-negotiable. Where if you ignored facts in favor of feels you'd die, be inprisoned, or be fired and there was no squirming out of it with wordplay or sophistry.

e.g. were you an electrician? Try arguing with a 20amp circuit about whether that plug should be male or female and your heart will stop.

Were you a lumberjack? Try calling a tree names to prevent it from falling on you.

Were you a mechanic? Try replacing those lug nuts with recycled environmentally friendly soy paste and see how long it takes for that wheel to fly off and kill someone and land you in prison for manslaughter.

Were you a mechanical engineer? Try telling a client that your steel should be held to a lower tensile strength because you're a POC, and then explaining why you shouldn't go to prison when it fails and drops a bridge on someone.

Were you the short order cook at Bubba's Fish Shack? Try telling a fryer full of boiling oil that you identify as burn proof and stick your hand in it.

None of this loosy-goosey NGO nonsense where everything's negotiable based upon your verbal skills and everything's an opinion. I just can't trust someone unless they worked with hard realities where the consequence of feels over reals was absolute and unavoidable.

What I mean by "reality" is a job where objective reality was non-negotiable. Where if you ignored facts in favor of feels you'd *die*, be inprisoned, or be fired and there was no squirming out of it with wordplay or sophistry. e.g. were you an electrician? Try arguing with a 20amp circuit about whether that plug should be male or female and your heart will stop. Were you a lumberjack? Try calling a tree names to prevent it from falling on you. Were you a mechanic? Try replacing those lug nuts with recycled environmentally friendly soy paste and see how long it takes for that wheel to fly off and kill someone and land you in prison for manslaughter. Were you a mechanical engineer? Try telling a client that your steel should be held to a lower tensile strength because you're a POC, and then explaining why you shouldn't go to prison when it fails and drops a bridge on someone. Were you the short order cook at Bubba's Fish Shack? Try telling a fryer full of boiling oil that *you* identify as burn proof and stick your hand in it. None of this loosy-goosey NGO nonsense where everything's negotiable based upon your verbal skills and everything's an opinion. I just can't trust someone unless they worked with hard realities where the consequence of feels over reals was absolute and unavoidable.

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I don't think their so called qualified immunity is of any use when bullets start flying at them

It's not exactly the safest job in the world, there's a part involving "absolute reality", such as getting killed

Now we could talk about the military; is it wise to trust a statement by a soldier just because his job involves a couple of lethal risks... Spies also, it's not necessarily the safest job in the world, but is that reason enough to trust/take what one them says at face value for instance? Of course not

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It's not exactly the safest job in the world

No more dangerous than driving a taxi. For the same reason too.

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And?

I still fail to see the correlation between trust and a line of work, it's a non sequitur from the get go

Edit: come back here you downvoting newfag coward piece of shit, and speak like a man you fucking button pushing monkey

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Someone who has worked exclusively in abstract fields is unlikely to have contended with hard, physical reality which will kill you if you delude yourself.

Which isn't to say that all people who've labored in concrete fields are moral, only that they've at some point been required to accept facts over feelings.