(July 22, 2022 at 5:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(July 22, 2022 at 5:20 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I never claimed it was bad to protest the police. Don't know where you got that from. All figures of authority should be protested. You think people should come out and protest the police when the police are in the right though? Doesn't quite make sense to me. These people were protesting this particular death, not police brutality or wrongful shootings in general. The protest had a main purpose, which is to shame the police for not using kid gloves on a man who shot up his neighbours apartment and remained armed. These protestors are wrongfully making the case that the police were racist in this instance for doing what was necessary to keep the neighbours safe and alive. They want the shooter and other violent criminals to be protected at all costs, and are willing to live with the neighbours being killed as collateral damage, which makes their views and protest here deeply misguided and wrong.Just to be clear...serial killers do not make a mistake. Serial killers have to do much more than an isolated oopsy to be convicted as such.
Look, I've advocated for protecting the worst of the worst people. I've advocated for protecting pedophiles in prison. I want to give inmates more comforts. Serial killers? Give them a video game system in their jail cell and free pot to smoke. Give them voting rights. Making people live a torturous life in prison is awful. It may not sound like it often, but I'm absolutely on the side of people with mental illness or people who made mistakes and ended up losing their freedom and got locked away. When you're in a situation where other, innocent lives are at risk, then you don't get to act with kid gloves in that situation. Your responsibility, first and foremost, should be to the innocent bystanders before a shooter.
I'm aware. I was talking about inmates in general, but serial killers had no choice but to kill serially, given the way the universe operates ( I'm aware that you disagree, but you have no evidence to the contrary, so until free will can be shown to exist, it is merely a supernatural idea no different from the soul. The burden of proof is on you), and treating people like shit in prison doesn't appear to be a deterrent or stopping people from committing crime, so I think it only makes sense that these people deserve some comforts, like in the case of mass shooter Anders Breivik, who gets to play video games in his prison cell, and the crime stats in their society haven't gotten any worse because of it. And like Bernie Sanders points out, if you don't give voting rights to everyone in prison full stop, then the powers that be will use this to take away the voting rights of black drug users and people like that.