Would have been entertaining to see the "Saturday Nite Special" defined. Oh yeah, and the cops are supposed to shoot them out of the bad guy's hands just like onTV. By last commercial break everyone goes home after the "group hug".
Everyone has their own perception of reality, most LEO and emergency services live in it, experience is reality. Johnny Cash once sang in a "A Boy Named Sue" ("in the mud. blood and beer").
Those occupying daytime desks and business hours (cubicle-car-home) set out on the divergent path, allowing others to interpret and define the world. Those who can only draw on "second hand reality", often get it from a "credentialled" but un-experienced or agenda-warped source. Based on the weight of the source "credentials" alone, the content is accepted valid as presented, and the pseudo-reality is carried further into their daily life and decisions. They too become credentialled without physically touching that, or what, they claim as their expertise.
(1) Lawyers on the Politician evolutionary track are probably the farthest from reality.
(2) Media types who never were stringers in the field are close second place.
(3) (fill in)
The average 220/5150, on or off thorazine, is probably more aware of the world, and likely more inclined to babble truthfully than (1,2) above, due to lack of personal agenda or profit motive
Be sure to check the footnotes...
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