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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh thanks! At least the judge basically dismissed the case. Probably wouldn't have happened in the US.

But their excuses are insane. "Yeah this 13 year old kid with an IQ of 70... there was nothing anyone could have done differently!". I suspect this is more motivated by bullying or abelism, basically a type of fascism to shit on mentally sick people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The crazy thing to me is the superior officer who signed off on it said he would do it again. That countermeasures haven't been working. He still thinks he was right and did a good thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The breakdown of morality begins when they agree to enforce drug laws.

Drug laws violate human rights. People whose job it is to put on a uniform and enforce those laws, start every day with a cognitive dissonance between these two statements:

  • Adults should be free to do as they see fit so long as they don’t hurt others
  • My paycheck depends on me preventing adults from using drugs

There are only two ways to resolve that cognitive dissonance:

  • Quit your job as a cop and find a job that adheres to “right livelihood”
  • Disintegrate your conception of human rights into “anything goes so long as the paperwork supports it”

This means 100% of the people involved in drug enforcement are either monsters already or they’re moral cowards on the downhill slide to becoming monster.

Anyone with integrity either quits, or makes so much trouble they get fired. Those who work in cooperation with the evil system can only do so by systematically weeding goodness out their own character.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Adults should be free to do as they see fit so long as they don’t hurt others

The "primitive morality" that arises out of human tribes and game theory is one of cooperation / competition. Tit for tat and all that. So anything you do that hurts the overall productivity of the tribe is "hurting" the tribe. They see junkies as unproductive, exploiting charity or prone to crime.

Of course I'm not subscribing to that, but there is another interesting connection: The kid is autistic or a "retard" in their eyes, and bullying I believe comes from an evolved social behavior to "weed out the weak". Fascism codifies this as "natural order".

This is speculation but might explain the internal rationalization of the cops.