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[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago

No one has said police yet?

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 39 points 11 months ago

that's not a job, some people are just Assigned Cop At Birth

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

They don't take it seriously enough. They go play army man.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Playing army would mean keeping their cool in hostile territory.

[-] abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Actually it means raping brutalizing and killing civilians in territory where you are not welcome

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

YOU know that. They don't seem to.

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I was thinking more that the general population takes them too seriously.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I disagree. They have the ability to kill people with little repurcussion

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And yet people thank them for their "service" and put "thin blue line" flags in their yards. That is the kind of "too seriously" I am referring to.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

That's just cause those people buy into the delusion the cops have.

But I agree with your overall point

[-] kernelle@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Honestly in my line of work I seriously considered Police, but when I noticed it's essentially a cult I noped out of there

[-] kava@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the problem with police is that

  • the people who should work as a police officer don't want to be a police officer

  • the people that shouldn't work as a police want to be a police officer

I don't think police is inherently a bad thing. It just happens to be because people who want power over others should not have power over others.

similar story with politicians. I'd prefer an honest politician. but the process of picking them selects for those who are dishonest.

[-] kernelle@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly, couldn't have worded it better. Obviously not all of them all of the time, but it is what it is

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