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I've always liked crime dramas. From Ironside and Hawaii Five-O to Murder, She Wrote and Remington Steele, to CSI and Criminal Minds.
However, there is this one thing that I have never been able to comprehend: generosity.
How many officers ought to be involved in the search for a missing child? In my mind with my view of humanity: no more than three. I cannot believe that any more than three would bother with a missing child. I cannot believe humans to be so generous with their time, the government with the money it puts into crime-catching, etc.
I would always write it off as being something for which one is to "suspend disbelief" when thirty or forty people were involved in the search; then, when I started reading true cases a few years ago, I was taken aback by the fact that it was true! I could not believe such a thing!
There was this one case, can't remember the kid's name, in which the police officer continued searching for the boy even after retiring.
I cannot conceive of any human caring for others - especially strangers - this much.
However, there is this one thing that I have never been able to comprehend: generosity.
How many officers ought to be involved in the search for a missing child? In my mind with my view of humanity: no more than three. I cannot believe that any more than three would bother with a missing child. I cannot believe humans to be so generous with their time, the government with the money it puts into crime-catching, etc.
I would always write it off as being something for which one is to "suspend disbelief" when thirty or forty people were involved in the search; then, when I started reading true cases a few years ago, I was taken aback by the fact that it was true! I could not believe such a thing!
There was this one case, can't remember the kid's name, in which the police officer continued searching for the boy even after retiring.
I cannot conceive of any human caring for others - especially strangers - this much.