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> Every settlement against the police should be taken from their pension fund. So... collective punishment? https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gci
by kstenerud 5mo ago
> Every settlement against the police should be taken from their pension fund.
So... collective punishment?
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/article-33 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/art...
- 5upplied_demand 5mo agoIn the current environment, taxpayers are collectively punished.
- eli_gottlieb 5mo agoYes, collective punishment of the smaller collective who can self-police (cops, no pun intended) rather than the larger collective who can't (citizens and taxpayers at large).
- valbaca 5mo agoPolice aren't "protected persons" > civilians who find themselves in the midst of an international armed conflict or military occupation and are in the hands of a foreign power
- int_19h 5mo agoIf they don't like it, we could have individual punishment but they have to surrender qualified immunity. Deal?
- kstenerud 5mo agoNice... I'm always disappointed when I see otherwise "enlightened" people being fine with civilizational regressions like this simply because it's a group they don't like. It's moves like this that chip away at your society. Penalizing a group of people for the actions of a few is the very definition of collective punishment, and is universally condemned in the civilized world for very good reason. If you can't get such a fundamental thing through your head, ask your AI agent.