What job do people take way too seriously?

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No one has said police yet?

They don't take it seriously enough. They go play army man.

Playing army would mean keeping their cool in hostile territory.

Actually it means raping brutalizing and killing civilians in territory where you are not welcome

YOU know that. They don't seem to.

I was thinking more that the general population takes them too seriously.

I disagree. They have the ability to kill people with little repurcussion

And yet people thank them for their "service" and put "thin blue line" flags in their yards. That is the kind of "too seriously" I am referring to.

That's just cause those people buy into the delusion the cops have.

But I agree with your overall point

Honestly in my line of work I seriously considered Police, but when I noticed it's essentially a cult I noped out of there

the problem with police is that

  • the people who should work as a police officer don't want to be a police officer

  • the people that shouldn't work as a police want to be a police officer

I don't think police is inherently a bad thing. It just happens to be because people who want power over others should not have power over others.

similar story with politicians. I'd prefer an honest politician. but the process of picking them selects for those who are dishonest.

Exactly, couldn't have worded it better. Obviously not all of them all of the time, but it is what it is