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I am a person in this forum, and I do not think that using a taser against a violent criminal is inhumane. What I (and many others) think is significantly more
by LeifCarrotson 9y ago
I am a person in this forum, and I do not think that using a taser against a violent criminal is inhumane.
What I (and many others) think is significantly more nuanced:
1. Using a taser against a violent person is humane only because it posses a smaller (but still important, and still present) risk of harm to the person than that person poses to bystanders and to the police.
2. Using a potentially lethal weapon like a taser against a nonviolent person is inhumane.
3. Manipulating science by funding supporters and suppressing critics to pretend your potentially lethal weapon is non-lethal is unethical.
The use of force in the article should have been measured against "if this fails we might have to chase this guy who spray-painted an abandoned building more, or we might not catch him at all... or we might kill him."
- program_whiz 9y agoI agree with your points, my umbrage was against the general sentiment in the forum that tools of force are bad and need to go because force is never really justified.
- yardie 9y agoI'm only half way through the post and I haven't seen anyone make an argument like that. Most seem to believe that tasers have a time and place and using them for nonviolent compliance isn't one of those reasons.