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  • There was no immediate and unavoidable risk to that cop nor to anyone else

    Wow, thanks for your analysis, Lemmy expert on conflict resolution! I’ll be sure to ping you next time I need some clear and unbiased analysis of an obviously dangerous situation. Man, I wish I could be half as confident as you sound when dishing out an opinion.

    Even if the kid was on drugs and speeding for fun shooting at him is not an acceptable response.

    Are you saying drugged up drivers that are speeding in high pedestrian traffic areas pose no risk to anyone at all??? Am I reading your comment right???

    Edit: this response was for u/riodoro1 but for some reason Sync won’t let me reply to them.




  • I have asked this question multiple times, and no one seems interested in answering. When people engage with the conversation in good faith I’ll stop seeing it as virtue signaling. It’s as if the only possible positions are: a) the cop is right or b) the kid is right which is so bizarre. It’s not how the real world works. I wish the world was so simple and black and white and we could discern good and evil right away.

    So I will ask you: at what point is it ok to let a person fleeing in a vehicle drive around recklessly? Where do you draw the line? This is a version of the trolley problem. Do you do everything you can to stop the kid and hope that you prevented someone else from being injured or do you let the driver escape and drive recklessly and hope for the best?





  • At what point did I ever say anything about the cop being absolved of any culpability? Thats the funny thing is people assume that just because someone asks for context in a conversation about a difficult situation that means we are automatically taking sides. Also, gotta love the loaded language used by keyboard warriors such as yourself. “Extra judicial killings” Tell me you’re 12 without telling me youre twelve. Fuck outta here






  • So by your logic we should be able to shoot anyone driving a car because they could potentially hit someone and kill them

    My logic doesn’t entail shooting everyone that drives a car. My logic is saying that context matters. Should we allow all drivers in all situations to drive recklessly regardless of the outcomes? You know the answer is no, so why are you asking that question?



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    The video posted online does not make it look as cut and dry as you put it. The kid is clearly driving away and was warned multiple times.

    EDIT: guys, maybe respond to the point instead of downvoting. Or are we back to Reddit ways?

    2nd EDIT: People are misconstruing my comment as if I’m defending the cop. I’m not condoning the actions of the police officer. All I’m saying is that it’s easy to armchair pontificate about the correct moral action. But imagine from all sides: what if the kid runs over a child and kills that child as they are speeding away. Then what? Just think it through a little more. All I’m saying is it’s not so black and white and it’s really easy for us to keyboard warrior from our office chairs.