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That isn’t an apt comparison — Kneeling on someone’s neck is never going to save countless lives.
by ugexe 6y ago
That isn’t an apt comparison — Kneeling on someone’s neck is never going to save countless lives.
- zarathustreal 6y agoWe can agree to disagree here, but I will share my opinion that in the case of an “erratic criminal” kneeling on the neck very well could save countless lives. For example, kneeling on the neck of an active shooter
- Tostino 6y agoWhy wouldn't the police respond appropriately to an active shooter situation and instead rely on this supposedly amazingly effective "neck kneeling" technique?
- zarathustreal 6y agoI’m sure police are trained in many different ways in the many different places that they exist, but my statement doesn’t specify police it specifies the act of kneeling on a neck of an erratic criminal
- Tostino 6y agoI really cannot understand where you are coming from with this mindset and the arguments you've made in this thread, and I am glad your mindset is not more common. I'll leave it at that.
- zarathustreal 6y agoI’m coming from a place of seeking to understand objective truth. My arguments are pretty straightforward and literal, there really isn’t much to understand beyond what’s written
- Tostino 6y agoI didn't mean understanding what you have written, I can do that well enough. I meant understanding the mindset of someone with those thoughts. I cannot put myself in your shoes is all I am saying, I do not understand the worldview that would allow me to get to a point where I could think those thoughts and feel I was an objectively "good" person.
- zarathustreal 6y agoHopefully you never fall into the habit of trying to judge good and evil. Hopefully you also never fall into the habit of adopting for yourself the view that others have of you. It’s entirely possible (and I encourage you to seek out the numerous writings of the philosophers that discovered this before us) to live a life and conduct oneself without a notion of good and evil. One of my favorites is Beyond Good and Evil.