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Quote by: donfie  I also don't submit to the "Lord of the Flies"
theory about people without authority but I simply want the
police there to do the actual dirty work of catching
and stopping those that don't share the same values as
most of us and would, given the opportunity and the
stremgth, try to take advantage of the situation.
Just like I could probably take my own rubbish to
the local tip but would rather someone did it for
me. |
I just don't like the idea of relegating basic security to someone else. I think it's as inherently dangerous as anything can be. We should all know that by now.
I also don't think anyone needs to "catch" and "stop" literally everyone who doesn't share mainstream values. There may be special cases for this kind of thing (serial rapists and serial murderers, for example), but a police state always emphasizes the "strength" of the measures and "punishment" against crime, but fails to consider the hypocrisy of police brutality, the inhumanity and sadism of prisons and basic questions of who will police the police.
I would rather see self-government, but that's ultimately illegal.
In this case, the authorities may have acted appropriately by killing this rampaging man. But again, that is something one needn't wear a badge to do.
Grandpa h.