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How many cops does it take to stop a car? 23

#101
I was part of the slave revolution - Hail Spartacus!!
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ChrisB2 said:
That has nothing to do with my post that you quoted.

...unless you're just disagreeing with me in general. If that's the case, then yeah. I don't think the cops acted "badly" in the sense you're using the word. Someone said "sloppy." Yes, I agree with sloppy. Someone said excessive. Can't argue there. Maybe even irresponsible and unprofessional. I'd go along with all of those. But since you're using the same word "bad" to describe the cops and the evildoer(s), you're making a moral judgment on the cops with which I totally disagree.
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Firing hundreds of rounds into stalled car with an unarmed suspect is a bad act.
ChrisB2 said:
I think some are having trouble seeing the distinction between the good guys and the bad guys... or, are there no bad guys anymore? Is that a politically incorrect term? o_O
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edpal said:
Nothing can cancel the original bad acts. We can only cancel bad people. Cops included.
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There is far more nuance to the world than "good guys" and "bad guys." We all have character flaws and make mistakes. Some of those mistakes are viewed as significant in our society, most of them are overlooked, some of them are even celebrated.

In the end we're all human and rarely do we truly live mustache-twirling, black hat wearing, 24/7 villain lives or the inverse. That kind of gross oversimplification exists only in juvenile oriented fiction, and adult oriented "news." :|
 
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Unrepresented said:
We all have character flaws and make mistakes. Some of those mistakes are viewed as significant in our society, most of them are overlooked, some of them are even celebrated.

In the end we're all human and rarely do we truly live mustache-twirling, black hat wearing, 24/7 villain lives or the inverse. That kind of gross oversimplification exists only in juvenile oriented fiction, and adult oriented "news." :|
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Robbers, killers, child molesters and rapists don't just have "character flaws and make mistakes" - talk about gross oversimplification.:facepalm:
 
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#110
edpal said:
Robbers, killers, child molesters and rapists don't just have "character flaws and make mistakes" - talk about gross oversimplification.:facepalm:
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I disagree. Society decides what activities are disruptive to order and which are acceptable. The examples you list are disruptive, and ones I don't wish to experience, but that doesn't make them the person preforming those acts 100% evil in each and every context, it simply makes them flawed in a way society won't tolerate.

While those would be on my list of activities that are disruptive to society as well, there are a lot of potentially disruptive activities that we don't hold such animosity towards. Arguably, engaging in war is far more disruptive, and yet historically we've celebrated leaders who send us into them (so long as we're victorious).
 
#114
How many cops does it take to ensure,
That all they pursued will die?
How many shots will they dump into him,
And make their mother cry?
The answer my friend, is 23 good men,
THe answer is 23 good men.

At least in this case....sucks they are such bad aims.
 
#117
Jim Campbell said:
kilvinsky's law......"dude pulls a knife,you use your gun....cancel his ticket right then and there"
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Absolutely. Ain't nobody got the time or patience to figure out an equal opposing force. Usually.

"Kilvinski's law states, be civil to everyone, courteous to no one. If he uses a fist, use your stick. If he uses a knife, cancel his ticket right then and there. I am going home at the end of the day!"

Officer Kilvinski, The New Centurians.
 

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