I'm pretty sure it's on purpose. Someone, somewhere, needs to raise their next-generation army. Some of it will no doubt hit us old farts, but the ones who really need to worry are the snowflakes in our kids' generation. It's their kids that'll likely be raised as mad-dog killers.
My timeline may be a bit off, though. Just look at how much trouble the new kinder, gentler kind of army is having recruiting. Kids these days just don't want to be part of a "killer force" all wrapped up in chiffon with flowers in it's hair. It looks to me like the next-gen army is already on the rise.
I've mentioned elsewhere that my last job usually assigned all the "problem children" to my team, thinking I was the only one there that could handle them. I had some real problem children, but not many would cross me - they seemed to all be scared of me, and to realize that I wouldn't bite their heads off without provocation, so they never provoked me. And I took care of my kids, which gave them even more incentive not to piss me off.
Oddly, the hardest ones were the nicest to me. I had a couple of light issues with a couple of wannabe hard-asses, but nothing serious. One thought he'd take me on when he was on my team, and discovered that was a bad idea, so he transferred to another team. Then he thought he REALLY had me where he wanted me, and proceeded to attempt to make my life rough, thinking he was not under my command, so he'd be safe. Wrong. he didn't last as long as lightning on a limb.
Another thought she'd just do as she damned well pleased, and, since she wasn't on my team, she figured she could just run it for me, enter my areas and tell me just how it was gonna be. Wrong again. Her ass hit the door the same day she tried me. Maybe it was bad upbringings that made them think I'd just cave in to their bullshit. I dunno. All I know is that when they gave it a shot, they got hard lessons real quick.
Most cops who have been on the job for a while will tell you that the most dangerous people are the easiest to handle. It's all those wannabes you have to watch out for, and there are a LOT of them around. They have something to prove, usually only to themselves. No one else cares, and the ones that do care don't want to be around them. The wannabes are the ones that'll back-attack you, since they don't have the confidence to come at you frontwards.
This sort of thing has been around forever, but it seems to be getting more prevalent. 20 or 25 years ago, a couple of girls in the Philippines tried to get me to fly over and kill off their uncle for them. Made all kinds of shiny promises, but I wasn't born yesterday, even back then. Murder is murder, even in the Philippines, and women are the same all around the world. There is a certain class of them that will promise the world to get you to do dumb shit, and, once done, leave you hanging. I know the type, have no interest in being manipulated by them.
To be fair, there are men like that, too. Just about any teenage girl can tell you about 'em.
Hell, they couldn't even get that manipulation done when I was a teenager... much less when I had a few years more experience on me! I was in my late 30's when those Phillippinas tried that, way to long in the tooth to be taken in by it.
But a lot more kids today are not that bright. They've never had to deal with the Law of Consequences, and can't think far enough ahead to realize there will always BE consequences. So they don't know how to evaluate things, don't know how to navigate life. Those are the kids they are raising to be their new "hard ass" army. They'll get some folks killed, but then those kids will run into a real hard ass, some time, somewhere, and they'll be gone like a puff of smoke, like a fart in a windstorm.
They will learn, too late, that no matter how hard you are, there is always someone harder than you, even if you're just having a bad day, or their just having a good one. Cemeteries are full of folks who thought they were the roughest one on the block, and found out the hard way they aren't.
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My timeline may be a bit off, though. Just look at how much trouble the new kinder, gentler kind of army is having recruiting. Kids these days just don't want to be part of a "killer force" all wrapped up in chiffon with flowers in it's hair. It looks to me like the next-gen army is already on the rise.
I've mentioned elsewhere that my last job usually assigned all the "problem children" to my team, thinking I was the only one there that could handle them. I had some real problem children, but not many would cross me - they seemed to all be scared of me, and to realize that I wouldn't bite their heads off without provocation, so they never provoked me. And I took care of my kids, which gave them even more incentive not to piss me off.
Oddly, the hardest ones were the nicest to me. I had a couple of light issues with a couple of wannabe hard-asses, but nothing serious. One thought he'd take me on when he was on my team, and discovered that was a bad idea, so he transferred to another team. Then he thought he REALLY had me where he wanted me, and proceeded to attempt to make my life rough, thinking he was not under my command, so he'd be safe. Wrong. he didn't last as long as lightning on a limb.
Another thought she'd just do as she damned well pleased, and, since she wasn't on my team, she figured she could just run it for me, enter my areas and tell me just how it was gonna be. Wrong again. Her ass hit the door the same day she tried me. Maybe it was bad upbringings that made them think I'd just cave in to their bullshit. I dunno. All I know is that when they gave it a shot, they got hard lessons real quick.
Most cops who have been on the job for a while will tell you that the most dangerous people are the easiest to handle. It's all those wannabes you have to watch out for, and there are a LOT of them around. They have something to prove, usually only to themselves. No one else cares, and the ones that do care don't want to be around them. The wannabes are the ones that'll back-attack you, since they don't have the confidence to come at you frontwards.
This sort of thing has been around forever, but it seems to be getting more prevalent. 20 or 25 years ago, a couple of girls in the Philippines tried to get me to fly over and kill off their uncle for them. Made all kinds of shiny promises, but I wasn't born yesterday, even back then. Murder is murder, even in the Philippines, and women are the same all around the world. There is a certain class of them that will promise the world to get you to do dumb shit, and, once done, leave you hanging. I know the type, have no interest in being manipulated by them.
To be fair, there are men like that, too. Just about any teenage girl can tell you about 'em.
Hell, they couldn't even get that manipulation done when I was a teenager... much less when I had a few years more experience on me! I was in my late 30's when those Phillippinas tried that, way to long in the tooth to be taken in by it.
But a lot more kids today are not that bright. They've never had to deal with the Law of Consequences, and can't think far enough ahead to realize there will always BE consequences. So they don't know how to evaluate things, don't know how to navigate life. Those are the kids they are raising to be their new "hard ass" army. They'll get some folks killed, but then those kids will run into a real hard ass, some time, somewhere, and they'll be gone like a puff of smoke, like a fart in a windstorm.
They will learn, too late, that no matter how hard you are, there is always someone harder than you, even if you're just having a bad day, or their just having a good one. Cemeteries are full of folks who thought they were the roughest one on the block, and found out the hard way they aren't.
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