Reading the news about Elliott Rodger's rants about wanting a girlfriend

[freshwest]

16. Same here. Not a cop's kid, but I learned to protect myself early on.

I met a cop once with a plaque of the Fulgrum quote on his desk from his Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The full text is here:

http://www.heartwarmingstories.net/everything.htm

IMO, he had a horrible job and I wondered if he was an abuser himself, because I felt only a very strange person would take the job, but I was wrong. I learned that someone has to do it. He worked in the special crimes division that made cases on abused children. Possibly Fulgrum's simple vision helped him keep his sanity.

A friend's son who is an LEO was promoted to detective. If he has a child abuse case, he won't take breaks or do anything no matter what time of day or night it is. He is 'driven,' so to say, to protect.

The quote was popular at one time. People mock this now, want a solution they can toss down a lightning bolts and change it all at once. I've seen too much to pretend abuse doesn't exist or that it's 'normal' in any way. Ignorance is the most dangerous thing.