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To: greenspirit who wrote (8863)	7/23/2000 11:16:44 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 9127

I'm glad to hear that your long-past incident with the police didn't warp you for life. Obviously, our experiences play a huge role in how we see things. But there's experience and then there's experience. It is an accumulation of experience, which extends our education and training, that makes people experts in certain areas. A single, traumatic experience, on the other hand, can provoke profound emotionalism and an unjustified generalization--quite the opposite of expertise. Both incident and expertise are types of "experience." Expertise is more likely to result in a valid conclusion than a reaction to a single, bad incident. You an I have long disagreed on this business. I continue to try to understand where you're coming from. I thought that perhaps your incident-type experience might account for the difference in our views. Guess I have to look elsewhere. Do you think your view of these events may have been shaped by personally never having had a run in with law enforcement? My exposure to the police, which has been benign, isn't the opposite of yours, which was memorably unpleasant. My non-experience doesn't count as a traumatic incident. It's just a tiny part of my total life experiences. Karen

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