- 18 Jul 2020 17:14
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As a society we need to have more compassion and respect for lawbreakers and criminals. People who break the law are not thugs, they're not monsters, they are just normal, regular people. Much of the time they are driven to break the law due to circumstances in their lives that they have had no choice over. We must put ourselves in their shoes and try to imagine their struggle.
Police officers have a slogan "to protect and to serve". In what way are they protecting and serving people who break the law? The slogan is patently false for many of us. As a lawbreaker myself, the police have done absolutely nothing to protect or serve MY interests. They have inflicted harm upon me and others like me.
We tend to condemn criminals on a moral level and I'm not sure why. Many laws are morally unjust and ought to be broken. In fact, I believe Thomas Jefferson himself stated that it is our duty to break certain laws if they are oppressive. And in fact this was the entire foundation of America was it not? To dissent and to rebel? I'm sorry I thought this was America.
Police officers have a slogan "to protect and to serve". In what way are they protecting and serving people who break the law? The slogan is patently false for many of us. As a lawbreaker myself, the police have done absolutely nothing to protect or serve MY interests. They have inflicted harm upon me and others like me.
We tend to condemn criminals on a moral level and I'm not sure why. Many laws are morally unjust and ought to be broken. In fact, I believe Thomas Jefferson himself stated that it is our duty to break certain laws if they are oppressive. And in fact this was the entire foundation of America was it not? To dissent and to rebel? I'm sorry I thought this was America.