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user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Eternal Value of Privacy

    Let's fire the Austin Police Department and end all search warrants

Yes please. The police aren't going to stop you from getting shot, they will just punish whoever shot you. It's not protection they provide but retribution.





user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are joking, right? I can't tell anymore with this issue.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm exaggerating a little. I do think that civil liberties need to be absolute, because we have no other practical means to restrain law enforcement, and the law is cruel.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, okay. I look at it from the opposite point of view: law needs to be absolute, because we have no other practical means to restrain human nature, and humanity is cruel.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Humans make the laws, and enforce them.

user-inactivated  ·  4270 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be sure. But the democratic majority does to some extent normalize the human nature.

It's an impossible argument, I think. Shades of grey with no factual evidence on either side.