Are we really going to sit here and pretend there's no alternative to police gunning down teenager

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58. Thanks. Those of us who presume to overcome few challenges fulfilling our desires cannot know.

We've graduated from adolescence without obvious scars, having known worthy adults personally whom we regard with affection and admiration. We've found wisdom in modeling from what we've seen of their grace.

What if there were no accessible and positive role models in our spheres of experience? What if it had always been escaping from one bad situation after another, having no, or only poor, spur-of-the-moment choices from which to model expertise and mastery? Unwittingly accepting the company of the foolish and transitory gratification to represent accomplishment? Because every moment could hide a sinister aspect, there is no trust even in one's own self, only a facade of bravado masking impenetrable incompetence in any worthwhile thing. And add to that a universal distain from our fellows. Life with a target painted squarely on one's back. Imagine an entire community of persons eating from that plate.

It is nearly always appropriate to assume nothing in this world. That's especially true when judging others.