• its_prolly_fine
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    9 months ago

    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

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
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        9 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.