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I can't think of a word for this post besides unhinged. The police aren't exercising an asymmetric power imbalance when they arrest you they're doing their JOB.
by 45rufhri4i 4y ago
I can't think of a word for this post besides unhinged. The police aren't exercising an asymmetric power imbalance when they arrest you they're doing their JOB. That is the service they provide, that if you're doing something illegal and you're in a city where they're not redtaped to death then they come and stop you. The fact they do their job isn't a strike against them.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoIt seems like this response uses the word job as a justification, but I'm not particularly convinced. I can hire a hitman and that has no bearing on what they're doing is ethical. Conversely, people do nice things for each other outside of jobs all the time. It seem to me that making something a job has no relevancy at all in this discussion. There are a million ways to argue for cops, but repeating that it's a job ain't one of them.
- 45rufhri4i 4y agoIt actually is if you don't ignore the context of the job while comparing it with something of false equivalence. Police work for the government and by extension the citizenry to enforce laws the citizenry passed. Is there a reason you feel laws against things like theft and murder are immoral or reasons why you feel sometimes victims of these crimes shouldn't be supported by law enforcement agencies? Because when you refer to police doing their job as an attack vector you're referring to them enforcing laws that society decided were important and so I think the onus is on you to explain which laws you feel are immoral or which victims are undeserving of justice and why.