So more like “gotta catch a few of ‘em”.
They have priorities. Those priorities just aren't you or your problems.
YOU will get older. At some point you will lose the ability to keep pace with more and more of the things you track. Keep a few essential interests, and cut yourself a slice of something peaceful to save for when it's time to take a step back.
This counts as irony, right?
https://www.police1.com/police-jobs-and-careers/articles/15-...
“After Mitchell apparently caught the Snorlax—exclaiming, ‘Got ‘em’—petitioners agreed to ‘go get the Togetic’ and drove off.” Mitchell said that he “buried” the Togetic and used an Ultra Ball on it, and was “still trying to catch it” after quite some time.
“Holy crap, man. This thing is fighting the crap out of me,” Mitchell said, according to court records. “Holy crap. Finally …. the guys are going to be so jealous.”
Without one it’s a huge timesink and you become one of those annoying people that wanders around staring at their phone getting in people’s way.
Castle Rock v Gonzales
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonza...
Warren v District of Columbia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...
DeShaney v Winnebago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
Simultaneously, in the US there is a well-established recognition of the right to self-defense. However, this is tempered by a minority of states imposing a duty to retreat. Seven states also impose a duty to comply with a criminal’s “negative demands” and one with both positive and negative criminal demands(!).
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/26/the-right-to-defy-crimi...
Some countries do not recognize the right to self defense and have no duty to protect, and there are all flavors in between, so YMMV depending on the country you live in or are visiting.
That said, it certainly doesn't help their case that they were playing a game instead of working.
The fire department that arrived was able to deem him as intoxicated immediately, he also had an open container in the car LAPD refused to acknowledge. The cherry on top is when he told my insurance company I pulled out in front of him, which is insurance fraud. Thankfully that was that lie that broke the camel's back, I was able to prove I wasn't in the car because my airbag never deployed and the fact this happened at 3AM in the morning.
So yeah, I'm mad that LAPD skirts their responsibility and instead of taking care of me the victim in this case, they went out of their way to ensure that a drunk driver who could have easily killed someone, was able to walk away from everything with zero consequences outside of his insurance fraud.
All so they could fuck with him and make it more difficult to claim damages with his insurance, costing him anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars in an economy where many or even most live paycheck to paycheck.
Sadly we're mostly wage slaves in the US and so while we might like to spend all day every day standing outside of the police department shouting or marching in protest we'd quickly lose our jobs, our homes, and perhaps die from the lack of employer provided insurance that makes the medications we need to survive barely affordable.
The system is rigged very well to prevent meaningful sustained protest by keeping us chained to our work for 40+ hours a week, keeping us eating and surrounded by poison to make us sick, and by only giving most people enough money to get by paycheck to paycheck. We're allowed to accumulate debt to keep ourselves entertained though so that when we're too tired to protest from overwork we can still sit in front of large TV screens while we stare at our tiny phones designed to keep us distracted and disconnected from the people around us.
Our best bet is to wait for those brief moments when we're allowed to cast a vote for someone else who doesn't represent our interests.
So in a sense, you can compare it to a collector of virtual trading cards, but instead of buying card packs you get them from moving around.