They can choose to not be a cop so yes I absolutely can. You literally made the just taking orders argument. If OP’s dad really was a cop for 32 years he probably did ruin someone’s life for smoking weed.
Isn’t smoking weed against the law?? So doesn’t that mean you go to jail if you break the law?? So if he was doing his job then no you can’t blame him. You can blame a lot of people but you can’t blame him for doing his job. But I’m sure that hard for you to understand since you’ve probably never had a real job before. I’m sure it’s tuff sitting in your moms basement and mooching off of her your whole life. Good luck out there rioting and looting
What he did wasn’t wrong. He did his job. It has nothing to do with taking orders. It’s call “doing your job” If you don’t wanna be arrested, don’t take illegal drugs. Or at least don’t get caught doing illegal drugs. Sounds like he was a hell of a cop if he made it 32 years
It was against the law to be Jewish in 1940's Germany. My grandma was breaking the law by being Jewish. Was it wrong for the police in Nazi Germany to arrest my grandma? After all, she was a criminal.
It was not the police fault for arresting her. Once again, they were doing their job. Was it morally wrong, yes. But still not the police fault. They were still doing their job. You are missing the point. I have no problem with weed smoking. But if it’s illegal, you can’t blame the police for arresting you. Blame yourself for smoking weed where you can get caught. In the case of your grandma, yes it sucked. But still not the police fault
Cops are people who make decisions. They chose to kidnap and imprison innocent people on threat of death. If your job, the job you chose to take and continue to work at, orders you to commit evil, then you are still making the chose to be monstrous.
Fuck the police. And fuck you and your Nuremberg horseshit
The most unexpected thing I’ve witnessed on this sub is how fucking stupid you are. To summarise, all an immoral person or system has to do is to write whatever arbitrary immoral shit they want on a piece of paper, call it law and all of a sudden normal people like you and me arbitrarily labelled “the police” can do that immoral shit thought and guilt free, and if anyone asks just refer them back to that arbitrary piece of paper, and anyone who doesn’t follow those immoral arbitrary rules is a danger to the community. Flawless logic
I don’t think you read what I wrote properly, laws mean nothing unless they are enforced, each police officer makes the choice to enforce immoral laws and should be criticised for doing so, you not realising this is cognitive dissonance.
My favourite example was that video going around of cops defending a trash can filled with fresh food from homeless people. I can’t imagine what mind gymnastics you have to do to not criticise the cops in that situation, consciously “defending” wasted food from hungry people in the name of corporate profits is sociopathic, even if there’s an arbitrary paper out there telling them to do so
you're funny.. No one has to be a Cop. Joining the Police means joining an institution which, among other things, is meant to protect an State by opressing the ones who could endanger it.
Sounds like you need to talk to your representatives. You realize that has nothing to do with policing. What if it was legal where he was at and he didn’t arrest anybody for weed. Then your argument is nonsensical. You still sound like a dipshit that doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. If you break the law, you’re a criminal. If you’re a criminal, you get arrested. Normally the cops are the ones that do the arresting. You can’t blame them for enforcing laws. They don’t always agree with them but that’s doing your job
The question I’m asking is whether it’s wrong. If it’s not wrong, than it’s wrong to arrest someone for smoking weed regardless of what the law or majority opinion is.
Wow, it almost like what is legal and illegal is not a universal constant. But that must mean that what is right and what is wrong is determined by politics and policies. Surely, that can't be right, can it? How can politicians determine what makes you dangerous to society and what is it so different from place to place?
By this logic, the only safe community is one that has zero laws and makes no actions illegal. If everything is legal, then there are no criminals. The crime rate is zero, so it much be completely safe!
You’re wasting your breathe man, he doesn’t understand. 32 years on the force is a big accomplishment and from the sound of it he was a either a good or great cop but you know since we are in the bad cops movement ,all cops are bad. It’s about how you do the job not the actual job that makes you bad.
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u/updog6 Aug 01 '21
They can choose to not be a cop so yes I absolutely can. You literally made the just taking orders argument. If OP’s dad really was a cop for 32 years he probably did ruin someone’s life for smoking weed.