Typical. Ask a pointed question, and don’t get answers but knee-jerk negativity. Does anyone here READ any of the blog posts on this site, which tend to be about such perceptive bias?
Is initiating force something that’s always wrong, or is it OK when wearing blue and done as an agent of a third party? What if the 9-11 hijackers had been wearing blue? What if they had been Saudi cops? Would they be heroes?
If not, why not? Is your title/livelihood the important deciding factor in whether you are doing good or evil, or is it something based on WHAT you DO regardless of who you are?
If you can’t think of a smart rebuttal, then thumbsdowning just makes you look deliberately ignorant. On the other hand, it may be good practice for the IQ test many police departments require: score too high and they’ll discard your application!
I am just trying to assist in further discussion, so if you respond negatively to this, I won’t comment further. I won’t assume you are a troll now, but a negative response to help would raise my probability that you are a troll.
Typical. Ask a pointed question, and don’t get answers but knee-jerk negativity. Does anyone here READ any of the blog posts on this site, which tend to be about such perceptive bias? Is initiating force something that’s always wrong, or is it OK when wearing blue and done as an agent of a third party? What if the 9-11 hijackers had been wearing blue? What if they had been Saudi cops? Would they be heroes? If not, why not? Is your title/livelihood the important deciding factor in whether you are doing good or evil, or is it something based on WHAT you DO regardless of who you are? If you can’t think of a smart rebuttal, then thumbsdowning just makes you look deliberately ignorant. On the other hand, it may be good practice for the IQ test many police departments require: score too high and they’ll discard your application!
This comment is well below the threshold, but I will reply anyway...
This article is less about passing judgements, and more about understanding what happens in another person’s mind.
You seem to be very new to the site, so I recommend reading some of the Sequences, or at the very least the one of which this article is a member to gain a little more context.
I am just trying to assist in further discussion, so if you respond negatively to this, I won’t comment further. I won’t assume you are a troll now, but a negative response to help would raise my probability that you are a troll.
Thanks, and welcome to LW.