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Thats basically saying all men are rapists, you just don't know which one is going to rape you.
When you go through a safe driving class, they teach you to assume everyone else on the road is an idiot who can't drive. This isn't because they are, it's because it's safer to approach it that way.
In scouts you're taught that if you encounter a carrion animal, you should assume it has rabies. Not because rabies is common, but because you really don't want to be the rare case of rabies.
When you're learning how to handle firearms, you're taught to assume all guns are loaded until you've personally checked and cleared it. This isn't because guns magically manifest bullets as they're handed from one person to another, it's because it's safer to make sure than to hope someone else didn't make a mistake.
The only reason this is any different is because it makes weak men feel the same way they want to make everyone else feel.
When I had the displeasure of meeting a skinhead in my younger teens, he tried to teach me that all black people needed to be treated as horrible lawless thugs with minds equivalent to neanderthals, until they actively proved they "were one of the ok ones".
Your analogies are good, but the jab at the end is questionable.
See, this is a false equivalence. Comparing a skinhead you met as a teen to the current accepted safe gun practice is like taking an anti ax YouTube video over a doctor. Some dumb fuck somewhere can have any opinion they want, it's not a standard to live by.
Cool so all women are pedophiles b/c some are. Got it.
If it makes your life better to assume so, go ahead. Who could want to stop you?
Yeah, if you got a kid I'd hope you'd assume everyone is out to rape them until you decide otherwise. It literally happens too frequently to not approach it this way.
That is an incredibly unhealthy mindset, I hope you're joking
Not all sharks are dangerous. I'm pretty sure most aren't (I'm not a shark expert tho, I just know they're smooth)
Yes. Capable of.