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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
I'd rather have an 'eye for an eye' type system and let people move on with their lives. Perhaps that's simply more of my 'just bullshit' though. I don't think the leap from 'generally agree' to 'suck it up and deal with the fact that your community won't be respected' is warranted in the least.
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If you aren't out there with others demanding answers to troublesome questions involved in policing, then telling those that are that they shouldn't be focusing on issues involving their own community IS telling them to suck it up. Saying you generally agree but they shouldn't make a fuss about their own community is slacktivism in the worst degree. And it basically illustrates Edmund Burke's famous quote of evil triumphing due to good people doing nothing.
And there is a reason that eye for an eye has long been abandoned. While progressive for the time (which, I'll remind you, was over 3000 years ago), it results in a fucking awful system of justice. I'm of the opinion that anyone that advocates for such a system has no idea what they are talking about. Though, for the record, does the eye for an eye mean if a cop kills an African-American person, that that person's family can kill the cop?