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  • I don’t call the cops. I call my friends. The last thing I want when I’m “in distress“ is for a bunch of stupid, authoritarian, armed thugs showing up to make everything 1000 times worse, possibly by murdering everyone around them just because they felt like it that day.

    This entire comment of yours is a hallucinatory coping mechanism, since you seem to think that your group of friends won't revert to the same barbaric behaviour that you accuse all law enforcement officers of.

  • Yes, I was more thinking that rebellion can come as a direct result of an increasingly fascist state, a form of blowback against authoritarianism.

    I find government a necessary evil, but left to its own devices, it will follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and create increasing chaos in society in attempting to maintain its own order.

  • Then if you find the cops bad, why not become one, despite your distaste for the profession? Someone needs to do the work, better a conscientious individual such as yourself.

    Alternatively, create a better system of crime mitigation on a local level and lead by example. It would be better for society as a whole for people to stop being so complacent, and change things in their local community.

  • It is odd how prophetic the first Matrix movie was, despite being a part of the machinery itself. Btw, it's worth reading "Simulacra and Simulation" as the first movie is a decent film representation of the premises in the book. Warning, it's a heavy read philosophically. Free your mind.

  • Your statement implied that you don't support the state having a sole monopoly on force, as law enforcement is representative of that. Hence you support the people having the right to use any and all force necessary, as demonstrated by your statement about calling your friends. The Second Amendment gives anyone the right to bear arms, therefore implying they have the right to use said force when necessary. Therefore, your implied support.

    You are the one who is hallucinating. You're playing your role very well.

  • The two have in common the fact that a part of their identity (regardless of choice), is being attacked for no other reason than that. Demonizing people is demonizing people.

    Are you going to demonize or mock someone who has chosen to be a cleaner or a fast food worker? Are you going to demonize or mock someone who believes in God, and is living peacefully with their neighbours?

  • If there are no police, then who is expected to enforce the laws? Unfortunately, a society on our scale does not function well without someone to do this rather distasteful job.

    It also comes down to the laws themselves, and a lack of social supports. There should be a lot more money going into things like treatment and housing, to help prevent people from having to offend or having the desire to do so.