Battling analogies. Bring it on! :-)
Body armor for cops is a precaution, not an invitation to go charging in like the Terminator.
Let's say you're a gardener in a beautiful sunny Arizona. You've got an occasional problem with varmits in your garden. They eat your morrells. So you think about putting up a fence. Now these varmits are very clever and don't follow the rules of normal varmits. So you want a really good fence. You decide to make it out of stainless steel and make it 8 feet high and bury 8 feet of it below the ground. You think that'll keep out just about any varmit.
Your neighbor says, "Gee that fence isn't such a good idea. It's ugly and all that shiny stainless will reflect the intense sun into my yard and kill my delicate shitake mushrooms that we love so much. Please don't do that. Please find another way to control your varmits."
But you say, "Well, what problem could this fence possibly cause you? It's on my land. It doesn't make any noise. It's not costing you anything. It's unreasonable of you to prevent me from protecting my morrells. Why are you being such a bad neighbor?"
Your neighbor says, "Well, if you insist I'm going to have to do something to protect my shitake mushrooms. I'll have to damage your fence to protect my property. I don't have the money to build a big fence around my property, and I don't want to do so anyway. Your superfence will have to go one way or another!"
Up to this point, you've had tolerable relations with your neighbor. You like trading mushrooms back and forth, even though you don't like his taste in music and think his dog is ugly.
Your choices are:
1) Put up the fence as planned and earn your neighbor's wrath.
2) Do nothing so as not to upset your neighbor, and accept losing some of your morrells.
3) Control the varmits some other way, protect your morrells and preserve peace in the neighborhood.
What should you do?
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
