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> any more than trusting the government to outlaw murder is empowering it to murder That is precisely what happens in practice though. Referencing the thousand
by buzzert 2y ago
> any more than trusting the government to outlaw murder is empowering it to murder
That is precisely what happens in practice though. Referencing the thousands of people killed by police in the US every year, with little to no accountability (who is to hold them accountable?)
- int_19h 2y agoThat does not happen in other countries, though, even though murder is just as illegal there. Our government in general and our law enforcement specifically are very much out of control in many ways, but that is not an inherent state of affairs.
- buzzert 2y agoI don’t see the government as being very different than a huge corporation. I haven’t seen very much evidence to the contrary, and this isn’t just a US perspective.
- alpinisme 2y agoNo. The government, via the police, can and does kill in the name of enforcing laws. But that power is not related to the fact we’ve made killing illegal for ordinary citizens. Outlawing murder is not what gave the government the right to kill, and outlawing discretionary firings would not be what gives the government the right to fire at its discretion (if it ever claimed that right).