Collipso: supporting violence against people who hold controversial/offensive/wrong views is wrong.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of examples now and throughout history of violence being necessary to defeat dangerous people. I’m generally opposed to violence, but it’s not bad 100% of the time.
Mods have lives, mostly. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t see every thread/post on here. Not to mention a mod just retired. That thread is now being discussed among the remaining staff, so keep your powder dry.
I’d like to address this and say that nowhere in that thread did I claim or even imply that all police are guilty of abusing their power or committing crimes against humanity. I just said that I wanted a thread where I could list all of the many examples that I find rather then clutter up this thread with them. If Warbler or anyone else is so offended by me doing that, then they have every ability to make a thread chronicling heroic police stories. (I might even contribute to it.) I didn’t create that thread to debate the issue of fair and just policing, which is a totally different discussion, I created it to illustrate how widespread the problem is without having to constantly post links in here that people in this thread probably don’t even want to read. Doing so would break up other people’s discussions and just make a ludicrously long thread even longer. I’ve considered making this thread for a while and I was prompted to do it when I kept finding links and posting them here. If that thread goes, then all my examples of police brutality that I occasionally post are coming back to this thread. I am diplomatic, though. I’ll change my thread’s title. How does “A Chronicle of American Police Brutality” sound?