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Yes, let's get mad at the people enforcing the laws instead of the people who write the laws. Then, we can turn off our code, make a big announcement, and feel
by derp_dee_derp 7y ago
Yes, let's get mad at the people enforcing the laws instead of the people who write the laws.
Then, we can turn off our code, make a big announcement, and feel good about ourselves without making any meaningful effort to actually help.
What. A. Great. Plan.
- gerbilly 7y agoYou can do both, it's not mutually exclusive.
- mateus1 7y agoThis is whataboutism. You can and you should engage politically against every level of institutions who hurt moral principles you believe in.
- yeahigotgoats 7y agona, thats just being a virtue signaling asshole.
- happytoexplain 7y agoThe entire concept of engaging against institutions that one feels are immoral is "being an asshole"? Or just this one? What principles are such a broad, hateful sentiment based on?
- mcphage 7y agoEngaging politically is not virtue signaling.
- eropple 7y agoIt is to nihilists. And also to those who seek to disarm others and render them unable to act for their beliefs. You see, then, the dire trouble we are in as a polity.
- marcosdumay 7y agoOn this case, I don't think your Law requires children to be imprisoned away from their parents, nor that it requires that illegal immigrants be imprisoned instead of deported. If that is really the case, the blame falls entirely on the people enforcing it.
- whenchamenia 7y agoWhen my parents went to jail, I didnt go with them. There are obvious logical considerations both sides are ignoring here. While seperation is clearly not good, the alternatives may be worse in some cases, as they were mine.