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> My first concern is how it will affect people the police historically over-target What's worse, some people feeling unsafe around police, or everyone feeling
by TechBro8615 4y ago
> My first concern is how it will affect people the police historically over-target
What's worse, some people feeling unsafe around police, or everyone feeling unsafe around everyone?
- komali2 4y agoThis is a false dichotomy.
- TechBro8615 4y agoYou're right, it's not everyone; the criminals aren't feeling unsafe.
- komali2 4y agoNo, your false dichotomy was supposing that we must have some arrangement of people (historically in the usa this means black people) feel unsafe around police in order for the rest of us to feel safe in society. It's not just a false dichotomy, it's illogical. If a given set of people doesn't feel safe around the police, they don't feel safe in society. They are us, unless you're willing to dehumanize them, so therefore a world where we don't feel safe around the police is actually your second case, where we don't feel safe at all. I click through this thread desperate for a conservative position that isn't teetering on a stack of rhetorical fallacies or cognitive biases. Are you able to provide one?
- TechBro8615 4y agoI thought I was providing one, in the form of the utilitarian argument that it's better for some people to be scared of police than for everyone to be scared of each other. You can disagree with utilitarian ethics, but it's not a rhetorical fallacy to promote them, and certainly not when presenting them as "the least bad option."