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.
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.