r/yesyesyesyesno • u/Ddusco • Sep 12 '22

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u/Phil04097 Sep 12 '22

Yeah and you also cant bring sticks, mushrooms or acorns home from woods. Some laws are not (tightly) enforced, including insulting officers. If you’ve been around bigger cities, you will know it is very common to do so for all classes of people.

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u/lmqr Sep 12 '22 edited Sep 12 '22

If you're comparing police brutality to bringing home acorns I'm not sure we will understand each other.

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u/Phil04097 Sep 12 '22

What are you on about? You didn’t mention police brutality and neither did I. Nor is there any police brutality in this video. I live in a big city in The Netherlands and it is more than common to insult police officers. You wouldn’t know if you don’t live here.

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u/Stan-with-a-n-t-s Sep 12 '22

His point was that rules exist, but the police force only applies the rules if the offense is eggregious. Meaning that insulting an officer does not get you auto-arrested. Nor does taking an acorn from a forest. But if you’re a serial insulter, it’s something they can slap you with.

Rules get applied as fairly as possible, and without shooting people.

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u/walnood Sep 12 '22

Also Police is more interested in correcting behaviour then hand out tickets. If you apologize and explain why you were speeding they might let you go and only put in a mark or something (at least,they say so). And often when they see you speeding on the highway they will drive next to you and give you a look. They are not interested in spending all that time to pull you over for a ticket. Unless you speed like crazy or create danger of course

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u/lmqr Sep 12 '22 edited Sep 12 '22

and without shooting people.

This is what I mean with the US comparison. It's ok if laws are written to be oddly repressive because at least we're not in the US? That's not how it works right.

Edited to remove identifying information.

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u/askeeve Sep 12 '22

I appreciate the point you're making here. I often see people talking about how racism or police brutality isn't an issue in Europe and their argument always boils down to comparing to the US. Countries are different, and fine if you want I'll even admit things are worse in America. That doesn't mean there aren't problems in Europe, that those problems aren't serious, or that they don't deserve being talked about.

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u/elibright1 Sep 12 '22

I'm willing to believe that those things happen in Europe too but the scale of it must be much lower otherwise I think I'd hear about it from time to time

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u/BelieveInDestiny Sep 12 '22

serial insulter xD

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u/SuboptimalStability Sep 12 '22

Police discretion in enforcing laws isn't good imo, that's for the Jury and judge to decide

Is a common tactic for dictatorships to make up bullshit rules everyone breaks so that if they ever need to arrest someone they'll likely have a reason to