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* Firemen, Hazmats, and other EMTs are a subversion as they are required to have an extraordinary amount of what we call manliness; risk tolerance, and something of a paramilitaristic outlook. But they are there to save lives. |
* Firemen, Hazmats, and other EMTs are a subversion as they are required to have an extraordinary amount of what we call manliness; risk tolerance, and something of a paramilitaristic outlook. But they are there to save lives. |
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**Likewise policemen may have to kill in the course of their duties but if well trained they will take pride in taking a collar alive. |
**Likewise policemen may have to kill in the course of their duties but if well trained they will take pride in taking a collar alive. |
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* Clipper ship captains and crew were of course very manly but killing was not part of their duties. Though they might run across pirates, and of course [[What the Hell Hero|opium]] was a slow poison and most |
* [[w:Clipper|Clipper]] ship captains and crew were of course very manly but killing was not part of their duties. Though they might run across pirates, some "Baltimore Clippers" carried slaves from Africa to North America, and of course [[What the Hell Hero|opium]] was a slow poison and most "China Clippers" carried it. |
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