My colleague sent me a blog post of the wife of a cop who was lamenting the dangers that her husband faces in his profession.  I get it, it’s got to be nerve-racking having a loved one with a job where there are serious health and life risks.  But this blog post annoyed me.  It’s not so much that the author bugs me.  What bugs me is the acceptance by the general public that a police officer’s job has to be so dangerous. I work at an oil refinery.  We have hydrocarbons, acids, hydrogen, etc. flowing through pipes and vessels.  Sometimes they’re at conditions where autoignition will occur if...