I think saying things like that is also meant to be inspiring. Like when you tell all the kids on a hockey team that they’re great and they’re gonna kick ass out on the ice, but you know who they’re about to play and they don’t stand a chance. But who knows, maybe telling them they’re great will get one or two of them to dream about being a future hockey hero, and they’ll get out on the ice and really kick some ass for once - make that extra pass, hit the net for a shot, or hold off on that big, useless, cross-check to the head that would put them in the sin bin for 5 minutes.
I know that he has to say what he said regardless of if it’s true or not. But the problem is that many cops are actual bad guys.
If a third of your hockey team is perfectly capable of playing well but spends the whole game fighting and abusing their spouse, saying 100% of the team is doing great just gives validation to the bad apples.
I think saying things like that is also meant to be inspiring. Like when you tell all the kids on a hockey team that they’re great and they’re gonna kick ass out on the ice, but you know who they’re about to play and they don’t stand a chance. But who knows, maybe telling them they’re great will get one or two of them to dream about being a future hockey hero, and they’ll get out on the ice and really kick some ass for once - make that extra pass, hit the net for a shot, or hold off on that big, useless, cross-check to the head that would put them in the sin bin for 5 minutes.
If the kids can dream, so can you, right?
I know that he has to say what he said regardless of if it’s true or not. But the problem is that many cops are actual bad guys.
If a third of your hockey team is perfectly capable of playing well but spends the whole game fighting and abusing their spouse, saying 100% of the team is doing great just gives validation to the bad apples.
Maybe you’ll inspire those bad apples to be great.
No, bad apples spoil the bunch. that’s kinda the whole thing about that idiom