I see policemen running red lights or failing to signal all the time around here. You think I’m going to beep my horn and summon him over to hear my lecture? Hell no! Sometimes you have to do what best protects you as a free person; See no evil, feel no evil. If this story is true, that officer is way out of control.
I have also learned that nowadays, many people take offense to being corrected, especially if they know they did wrong. There was a guy on Craigslist advertising a new ball club for college aged adults. He misspelled the word college (as collage). I emailed him about this, all the while saying ‘I hope your ball club has a good year’. He emailed me back using the most foul type of language. If I knew of somebody who might join his ball club if would say don’t contact this man, because he seems an unhinged kind of person likely to lose control very easily about minor issues.
“See no evil, feel no evil”
Edmund Burke had something to say on that subject. I suggest you look it up.
>> I emailed him [with good intentions] ... He emailed me back using the most foul type of language
Some say you can’t fix stupid. Unfortunately, you can’t fix nasty either.