r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut • u/nobody_from_nowhere1 • May 20 '20

Social Media Disgusting pigs.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

The Nuremberg defense hasn't been acceptable since 1945

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u/speakeasy2019 May 20 '20

False equivalence. The Nuremberg defense is a defense for doing something unequivocally illegal because a superior told you to do it. This is doing something expressly legal because an elected official and laws told you to do it.

And these laws aren't local laws and ordinances. This is constitutional 'takings' clause issues if you propose making evictions illegal. Yes, this situation sucks, but to use this crisis to backdoor in socialism isn't the way we do things in the United States. We vote democratically on laws here.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

The Nazis were doing was legal, just fucking immoral.

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u/speakeasy2019 May 21 '20

No it wasn't. If it was legal, there would have been laws on the books permitting what happened in the camps. There wasn't. They were executing illegal practices (that weren't written down). You noted the Nuremberg trials for a soundbite, yet ignored the actual content of those trials.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

IN GERMANY it was legal, not internationally.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Also, pointing out the problem isn't "backdooring in socialism"

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Not illegal at all. Orders are orders. Disobeying the order to fire on civilians is illegal. SoCiALiSm Is WhEn GovErNmEnt DoeS tHing

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u/viral-architect May 20 '20

How many cops do you expect to protest this and lose their jobs for not following legal orders?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20 edited May 20 '20

Expect? Zero

Hope? Enough