Yea, it’s just funny to see in a message condemning their behavior with a gun. IMO, if someone gets to be called “professional”, that should come with hard requirements of excellence when we’re talking about deadly weapons.
These articles virtually never describe someone worthy of “professional”.
The word professional has several definitions, and being competent is only one of them :)
I did use a very archaic definition I suppose, but simply being engaged in a specific occupation, without any skill or competence whatsoever, is all it takes to define one as a professional.
I.e. you can be a professional (work in an occupation) without being very “professional” (competent, expert) at all.
I’m older, and tend to not worry much about what assumptions I’m inviting, sorry. Googling the definition of the word will show what I’m saying easy enough :)
Thats the context I intended actually :) its part of their profession.
Yea, it’s just funny to see in a message condemning their behavior with a gun. IMO, if someone gets to be called “professional”, that should come with hard requirements of excellence when we’re talking about deadly weapons.
These articles virtually never describe someone worthy of “professional”.
The word professional has several definitions, and being competent is only one of them :)
I did use a very archaic definition I suppose, but simply being engaged in a specific occupation, without any skill or competence whatsoever, is all it takes to define one as a professional.
I.e. you can be a professional (work in an occupation) without being very “professional” (competent, expert) at all.
I’m older, and tend to not worry much about what assumptions I’m inviting, sorry. Googling the definition of the word will show what I’m saying easy enough :)
Oh I’m familiar, I just had to laugh at the extreme juxtaposition between the definitions in this case.
It’s hard to find better examples of “professionals” acting unprofessionally than cops.