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Parent said property damage, not me. So your uncharitable assumptions about my intentions are way off on that point. If you want to reframe the issue from prope
by lawnchair_larry 6y ago
Parent said property damage, not me. So your uncharitable assumptions about my intentions are way off on that point. If you want to reframe the issue from property damage to killing unarmed civilians, take it up with the parent. We were talking about the video of the cop randomly smashing windows.
Not surprisingly, your straw man is just as bad. Nobody said or implied anything remotely close to a “shit happens” attitude. Did you just not read the next sentence or something?
- bigiain 6y agoYou said "stupid and abusive". Not the sort of terminology usually used for "property damage". And yeah, I read (and just reread) your next sentence, and it still reads as a "shit happens" attitude to me. As I read it, you're saying there's nothing we can possibly do to ensure that rate of "stupid and abusive" cops is any lower than the rate of "stupid and rioting" civilians. (Or the most optimistic reading of it I can see is that you think we can't do any better a job of ensuring a lower rate of stupid and abusive cops than we have now.) I think we need to do a _way_ better job of screening cop applicants before giving them a badge and gun, and hold them to a way higher standard that is currently the case.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoYou completely missed the point then and are absolutely wrong about what I said. Have a nice day.
- yazaddaruvala 6y agoDo you mind please responding to my most recent questions for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23398553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23398553 Thank you either way.