Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
What I need you, and the others who read and participate in this board to understand, doesn't even come from being law enforcement.
1. You are being manipulated, and it is working. It is also working on law enforcement officers. "One bad apple spoils the bunch" is about the shittiest way to frame the problem possible. ALL of HUMANITY has bad apples, but you aren't being shown any of that -- until it's convenient and serves a purpose (not for me or you, though... others' convenience and purposes). "One bad apple spoils the bunch" is an emotional argument that absolves YOU of having to think or be partially responsible for the situation.
2. I'm not asking you to not be offended by what you see when it is immoral, illegal and unethical. I also HATE the immoral, illegal and unethical when it infringes upon the God-given sovereignty of the individual, damages them or degrades them. What I AM asking of you is that you don't abandon reason and start getting wrapped up in emotional arguments and painting gigantic disparate sets of people with a brush they don't deserve. You guys need to take a step back and ask yourselves what the difference is between you getting upset at a statistically insignificant occurrence rate of these interactions that have been hyper-focused and hyper-magnified by the Media, and the Karens calling you a fucking simpleton and knuckle-dragger because you refuse to wear a mask -- she, after all, saw the reports on the doctors and healthy young people who died of this horrible disease.