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RE: Just Doing Your Job? Well, Just Don't!
If there is a guilty that the police behave as they do, they are the same people in society. People support police behavior, they are all potential dictators, when they have the opportunity, they decide to impose themselves on others by force. When the police repress, there are many people who do not support it, but there is another group that does. As happened in Catalonia, there was repression, and some citizens agreed, and others did not. When the police do what they do, they may or may not be following orders, but from their point of view, they believe they do the right thing.
From their point of view, yes...but their point of view is objectively wrong, from the perspective of science-based ethics.
@ekklesiagora yes I agree with you. However, I do think there is an aspect of idealism too, in terms of convincing others of how you think things should be. The police uphold and enforce the principles of statuses quo- of big capital, of laws based on outdated morals and a passion for retributive justice instead of restorative justice (think the difference between treating someone with a cocaine addiction instead of throwing them in jail for years) @Vieira there is often a fundamental disconnect between the "laws on the books," enforced by police and the people, the citizens, that figuratively put them in power. Often police can exploit a loophole in their own rules of conduct to act violent toward the people they are sworn to protect and serve, when they could have used little to no force at all. The reason that they often believe that they are "just doing their job" is because they know they have governments to protect their job security and even have juries that meet in private BEFORE deciding to charge police of assault or murder. The committing of evil is often done not by people with malicious intentions to do harm, but by people that have no sense of individual arbitration over the rules they have to follow in order to earn a living or even survive. I feel this video is appropriate