4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence

[MyGLeonTrotsky]

Hate to say it, but these officers had it coming to them. They did this to themselves. If you join yourself to any organization, faith, affiliation or otherwise, you have to be held responsible for the consequences of being a part of that organization or affiliation. If I joined the Mafia, I would be held responsible for what that entailed and these police are no different.

I completely disagree. Communal guilt, especially when punished by vigilantism, is obnoxious to a free society.

We need some common sense reforms, that much is obvious.

Of course. But I doubt collective guilt will pave the way for such reforms.

Who has advocated for collective guilt? I am simply saying people need to take responsibility for their actions. Would you treat a member of ISIS as a free thinking moral agent, or as a member of ISIS? Obviously the latter. All I am saying is be consistent in applying that standard to the police and military. Most people exempt the police and military from the same standard they hold ISIS, the Mafia and gangs to. Even though they commit the same acts, for very similar reasons.