Ken:
You're right. I gotta write more clear. For example, when I initially wrote "...you don't see the evil that is there, unless you are a police officer or in a similar line of work", it was part of a paragraph that contained a preceding sentence that made it clear, I thought, that all the "you"s in the paragraph were rhetorical. That made the whole paragraph more of a comment upon a part of human nature than anything else. And in context, more applicable to America than other places, at least that is what I thought.
Edit after the initial response alert! I also should have made a new paragraph after "Boy are you...". That would have helped too.
The snake thing was a metaphor. Poorly carried out obviously enough. It was meant to illustrate that whether bad thing is done because of "idealism" or "unfettered evil" doesn't make much difference. The result is the same and you stop it if you can.
The "boy are you wrong." is just plain old colloquial American English which I still rather like. Though I will admit that telling somebody directly they are wrong is rather frowned upon in modern America.
You should actually try asking me direct. I might surprise you.
I guess I ended up doing my rhetoric homework after all.
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