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The police have frankly earned every last scintillia of their hatred from their actions and lack of accountability. We don't accept a rapist or fraudster blami
by Nasrudith 6y ago
The police have frankly earned every last scintillia of their hatred from their actions and lack of accountability.
We don't accept a rapist or fraudster blaming society for the damage they do to get the sex or money they want and we should certainly hold actual authorities to higher standards instead of lower ones. The system being messed up does not negate their own moral agency and deriliction from it. To acquit them is even worse than even "just following orders" but an utterly insane "it is unfair that I am being judged by the intentions and outcomes of my actions taken on my own initiative".
- Vysero 6y agoFirst of all: "The police have frankly earned every last scintillia of their hatred from their actions and lack of accountability." Is just ignorant. The VAST majority of police are wonderful people who have dedicated their lives to helping others. Secondly, you have no idea what the stakes are for anyone who is following orders, and it could vary from: none at all too: not being able to pay for their child's leukemia treatments.
- jdashg 6y agoWow, no, following orders for a paycheck isn't acceptable. I think most of us felt that was definitively decided at Nuremberg. There are many other ways to get a paycheck that don't involve, well, all that we keep seeing on the news.
- newen 6y agoThank you. I see too many "I was just following orders" arguments in the internet.