• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Hey, what if a terminally I’ll crazy patient visit the police department of every city? I mean many terminally I’ll patients. They could be 12 years old if that helps.

    Wouldn’t they all just start shooting themselves in a crazy shark feeding stupid way? Like when you see Koi ponds getting fed and all the Koi make the pond go crazy.

  • daed@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wow. There are literally zero details in this article and everyone has labeled the cop a murderer. What a thankless, shit job, police. Could it not have been that the officer arrived on scene to an armed individual who then attempted to murder him? He’s conducting a welfare check, the person he’s checking on may not be all there… Both the checker and the checkee are humans and matter here!

    Which is where I and the rest of the ACAB folks will probably start to agree - cops shouldn’t be the ones responding to these calls. The hard part is that sending unarmed social workers into dangerous scenarios is not the answer either. Tough problem to solve. World’s not perfect. Give your fellow human the benefit of the doubt, though. Not every cop is a murderous bastard, and thinking that way isn’t helping anyone except tickling your own smug feelings. It’s also a sweeping generalization, something that’s both foolish and frowned upon these days. This an appeal to the humanity in all of you - quit writing off humans with a single acronym. You are removing their humanity and labelling them a monster. We can look to history to learn from the same mistake.

    • TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Level headed take gets downvotes. Classic Lemmy.

      Regardless of how people feel about the above posters opinion, it’s a valid opinion, and people should engage in an open minded discussion instead of knee-jerk downvoting.

      As a community, we’re better than that.