RE: 4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence
July 13, 2016 at 6:13 am
(July 13, 2016 at 1:52 am)MyGLeonTrotsky Wrote:(July 13, 2016 at 1:27 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I completely disagree. Communal guilt, especially when punished by vigilantism, is obnoxious to a free society.
Of course. But I doubt collective guilt will pave the way for such reforms.
Who has advocated for collective guilt?
You did, here:
(July 12, 2016 at 9:36 pm)MyGLeonTrotsky Wrote: 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.
To go on:
(July 13, 2016 at 1:52 am)MyGLeonTrotsky Wrote: 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.
In your first sentence, you advocate for the individual accepting personal responsibility. Yet in your last two sentences, you assign group guilt.
Perhaps you might make up your own mind first before lecturing others?
(July 13, 2016 at 1:52 am)MyGLeonTrotsky Wrote: 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.
I'm not one of "most people". Perhaps you could consider the thought that you're barking up the wrong tree here? I mean, I'd like to be considered as an individual, too.
Filters are powerful things. Have you examined your own?
