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Does it matter where the risk comes from if the differences in risk are still there? A person dying due to falling off a tree is just as dead as one dying from a GSW. Police work is objectively less dangerous than many other much more mundane professions; why does it matter what the source of the danger is if the results are the same?

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Of course it matters. There is far more probability that you will be attacked than you have of falling. This is just basic math. Let alone the source of the danger, one of them is far more traumatic.

Let's say you get hurt falling off a tree. You wont suffer violence.

You ever been in a fight? Ever? This is a real question. Answer it please.

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