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In reply to the discussion: Now will people believe me when I say we live in a de facto police state? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)That's why we don't allow vigilantism. Which is why we have LEO and courts. Of course the victim in a crime is not able to be objective.
The person the victim thinks is guilty may not be guilty, for example.
If a black person rob someone in my family, I am justified in believing all black people are bad?
A doctor committed malpractice on a relative (or at least, I think so, but I'm not objective and a jury might decide he did not). So now I get to claim all doctors are incompetent and only want to make money and don't care about the patient? And because one close to me was a victim of doctor negligence I get to go around smearing all the rest of that profession and everyone is supposed to agree with me?
It's appalling how some people don't believe bigotry is wrong after all. It's only they have ideas about who they can be bigoted again. It's OK for you to treat cops with some broad brush but if anyone dared lump you in with some category you belong to, you'd be screaming.