RE: Please Justify This Police Action For Me
February 5, 2021 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2021 at 4:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 5, 2021 at 4:30 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:Is that supposed to be different than the situation you described, where we have criminal gangs instead of cops? This isn't just a bad faith argument, it's a self defeating bad faith argument, precisely the same as your ironic demand that others acknowledge that people might do what they've been trained to do.(February 5, 2021 at 3:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Strongly disagree. These are ostensibly the people we’ve entrusted to help keep us safe. To that end, we’ve trained them, armed them, paid their salaries, and have given them a virtual monopoly on deadly force.
We have EVERY right to expect a higher moral and ethical standard from them. If they can’t provide or live up to that standard, they should choose another profession.
Boru
Then you won't have any cops.
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