RE: US police brutality item
June 3, 2020 at 4:02 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2020 at 4:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The idea that violence solves nothing is more a liberal shibboleth than a statement of truth - but I certainly won't argue with anyone who has a non violent solution and prefer them to violent solutions simply because of the kind of effort involved in violence. It's all of the same stuff that a peaceful solution would include. The logistics and the rhetoric and the hearts and minds...with added running and choking and hiding and shitting yourself and hunger and death.
Thing is, if the other guys would rather kill you than listen to you, the choice is not yours to make and any tut-tutting from the peace loving crowd simply perpetuates the one sided cycle of violence already ongoing.
Ideally, you destroy the infrastructure, not the people. Things can be replaced. Booting the keystone cops out of town doesn't mean that you won't immediately need new cops...it's just an opportunity to get a better class of policing. Maybe we could get a police force that doesn't even murder people! Imagine that.
We're not exactly discussing some randos simple desires here.
Thing is, if the other guys would rather kill you than listen to you, the choice is not yours to make and any tut-tutting from the peace loving crowd simply perpetuates the one sided cycle of violence already ongoing.
Ideally, you destroy the infrastructure, not the people. Things can be replaced. Booting the keystone cops out of town doesn't mean that you won't immediately need new cops...it's just an opportunity to get a better class of policing. Maybe we could get a police force that doesn't even murder people! Imagine that.
We're not exactly discussing some randos simple desires here.
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