(September 2, 2015 at 10:40 am)loganonekenobi Wrote: Which just doesn't register to me at all. You would think thata black officer of the law would not treat his own like that just because he is now a cop. I mean surely that black officer, before he became a cop, had played basketball in the park just as the above victim did.
You have to understand that people's behavior is greatly affected by institutions like the police force. When a person is put into an environment where it is acceptable to do things that would normally contradict their ethics, it's easy for that person's moral values to get warped and distorted. When you add on top of that the environment is created around a position of power, you have a recipe for human behavior that boggles the mind, like a black man being a racist cop against black people.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
