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Originally Posted by bulldogs85
I heard the following example from an old Army Sgt, talking about soldiers and cops:
"There are three types of people in this country. Wolves, dogs and sheep. Wolves are violent, nasty creatures. They care about nothing but their own survival and pleasure. They will kill, eat or injure anything they can so long as they survive it and enjoy it. The wolf loves violence in any fashion. The sheep is the opposite of the wolf. The sheep is fat and soft. The sheep despises violence of any kind. The sheep is a bit arrogant and sees itself as morally and intellectually superior through it's condemnation of violence. Then, there is the dog. Much like the wolf, the dog enjoys some level of violence. But the dog has a conscience, and thus, could not be violent towards a sheep, but only a wolf. The dog lives for the day the wolf comes for the sheep. The dog is disgusted by both the wolf and the sheep, but for some reason, is willing to die fighting the wolf to protect the sheep. When there is no wolf, the dog and sheep don't get along. The sheep doesn't like the dog because it knows the dog reminds them that the wolf is out there somewhere. The sheep doesn't like to even accept that the wolf exists, and especially doesn't like thinking it needs the dog because it is too weak to fight the wolf. The only constant is that the sheep hates both the dog and the wolf."
Some people are wolves. Some are sheep. And some are dogs.
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I think perhaps people are too diverse to be classified like this. Perhaps their upbringing is what brings criminals to violence, or biological or chemical problems, but it is the desire for action and violence that brings cops and criminals to relate to each other in my opinion. They are simply fighting for different things, but to the same effect, ultimately, self gratification. Wether they gratify themselves through "fighting bad guys" or "fighting good guys", it will ultimately be for themselves, but because they are so self righteous, they wont realize it.
Perhaps the true "dogs" in your analogy are the doctors, nurses, firefighters, the people who actually do live to help others and not to gratify their own needs.