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Muscles posted...

Good cops exist, they usually don't enforce the rules for petty bs. They are cops that will be helpful to the average person, they may not be perfect pawns but being strickly by the books leads to terrible things. The system is fucked up, but good cops do exist, they are just a minority to the corrupt assholes and by the books regardless of circumstances assholes

'If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.'-Desmond Tutu

Zeus posted...

Some of the problems with the quote's assessment is that it conflates "good cop" with "good person," makes subjective claims about whether laws are just (as well as what is or isn't cruel), and wrongly assumes that good people never do bad things.

1. A good cop is a good person. If your definition of 'good' is 'efficient at their job's, you're missing the point entirely
2. There's nothing subjective about enforcing nonviolent 'crimes'. I know people deride libertarians for throwing the NAP out like it's a DBZ move, but it's clear who is the aggressor in literally every situation where a person is confronted by police for a victimless 'crime'. That's very much objective, not subjective.
3. It's ok to not be perfect. It's not ok to participate in a cruel and unjust system and then go 'oh well I don't make the rules I just enforce them'. That same excuse didn't work for the nazis at Nuremberg, doesn't sway me here.

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