Probably THE most extreme cases I've seen of this came when I was a young reporter and would ride along with ambulance and police personnel. They'd get together at the truck stop to eat late at night and swap stories, sometimes joking about the bodies and wrecks and beatings they'd seen - not to make fun of the victims, but in an effort to minimize the impact of it all as horrible. I was aghast at first, but then I realized these people saw this EVERY SINGLE DAY and if they were expected to take it all dramatically seriously all the time - like the rest of us do the very few times we encounter it - they needed some sort of outlet.
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Date: 2010-08-12 12:28 am (UTC)