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WCDT Strips 3696 - 3700 (12-16 March 2018)
pwhodges:
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Mar 2018, 02:03 ---Just curious - why is it a shame that Clinton feels no reason to hide his identity or what he's doing? Is a world with less suspicion and paranoia a bad thing for some reason?
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The Founding Fathers fought a war to establish rights and freedoms. The 4th and 5th Amendments protect people from being unlawfully detained or giving their names without due cause. All you need to do is stop enforcing your freedoms to lose them.
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Hiding oneself is not freedom. Especially, feeling the need to hide oneself is not freedom.
Being unlawfully detained is another matter, of course.
ckridge:
If you are a middle-class old white guy, as I am, police are public servants. It is in bad taste to be rude to servants. You say "Can I help you, officer?" and cooperate so far as is moral and prudent. Only if they ask you do do something wrong or dangerous do you bring up what you are legally obliged to do.
If you used to be a little ragged thug of no consequence to anyone, as I did, and police let you off a couple of times when they didn't have to, as they did, this is even more the case.
Not everyone is middle-class, white, old, or a guy, and not everyone stands in this relation to the police. If you do, though, it is foolish to pretend otherwise. If you do pretend otherwise, you are making a service worker's day harder to make yourself feel important.
ckridge:
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 14 Mar 2018, 00:52 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Mar 2018, 00:07 ---You know, every time I see the character of Elliott, it's fascinating how Jeph contrasts his huge physical size with his gentle and retiring nature. He's just a genuinely sweet guy and the fact that he can't stop apologising for wrongs (real or imaginary - remember that Clinton originally started the confrontation that led to Robohand Mk1's fate) just adds to it.
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I think that that kind of representation is becoming common enough in fiction that you almost expect it before the "I'm big so I'm mean and gruff" personality. Take Rubeus Hagrid for example. There's a whole Trope page dedicated to them.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GentleGiant
(Good luck brave adventurers who venture into TV Tropes.)
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Great big quiet gentle guys are common in real life, too. They get tired of scaring people, and so mute themselves way down so as to avoid it. It is a shame that they have to do that, but the greater the power, the greater the responsibility.
What is particularly pleasing about Elliott is that he is a quiet, gentle badass. He has an excellent "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," and an even better "Friend, you have a lot to learn about interpersonal behavior. Come outside with me, and I'll educate you."
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 14 Mar 2018, 00:52 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Mar 2018, 00:07 ---You know, every time I see the character of Elliott, it's fascinating how Jeph contrasts his huge physical size with his gentle and retiring nature. He's just a genuinely sweet guy and the fact that he can't stop apologising for wrongs (real or imaginary - remember that Clinton originally started the confrontation that led to Robohand Mk1's fate) just adds to it.
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I think that that kind of representation is becoming common enough in fiction that you almost expect it before the "I'm big so I'm mean and gruff" personality. Take Rubeus Hagrid for example. There's a whole Trope page dedicated to them.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GentleGiant
(Good luck brave adventurers who venture into TV Tropes.)
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I have been accused of being an example of this trope myself.
shanejayell:
Awww. :D
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