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by in_cahoots 2160 days ago
The question isn’t whether the authors think that, it’s whether the police think that. If you thought a suspect had superhuman strength and was impervious to pain, wouldn’t you use more lethal means to control them?
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Did you read the article as critiquing the belief that some suspects have superhuman strength and imperviousness to pain?

I mean, I Google'd "drug-induced strength". Among the first few hits were [this video][1] and [this article][2], which seem like reasonable evidence of those two symptoms existing together.

The article's logic was disjointed, but I read it as primarily focusing on terminology. If it was instead an argument against the existence of those symptoms, that'd be a tad confusing given stuff like the YouTube video.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6FnGeYUOE&t=24

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/1...