RE: The murder of Breonna-- it's not racism
"But you failed to point out that the person who started shooting, without making sure who was coming through the door, was Mr. Walker."
If someone kicks in your door you have every right to start shooting them. The one who makes the choice to take a "job" that involves being a gang member deserves to be shot while doing it. Sorry, but that's just how it goes.
"(right or wrong, they want to go home at the end of a harrowing day)"
Yes, all gangsters want the same. They would much prefer their victims die instead of them. They are still scum. I would always rather the person who wasn't actively being the bad guy be the one to survive to the end of the gangster's day.
"...there are plenty of good cops out there, too."
Nope. Not a single solitary one, because you can't do that "job" and be a good person. The "job" is defined by the acts they commit, not by who they might have been had they made better choices.
If they were good they would quit that "job" or get fired (or killed by their gang brothers) immediately. If you can't think this uncomfortable fact through, maybe this will help.
"You try doing their job and see how you feel a few years down the road."
I have ethical principles, so I wouldn't do that any more than I'd become a rapist to see how difficult their lives are. Do I need to become a rapist so I can see how I feel about rapists being identified as bad guys? Or, am I allowed to correctly point out that anyone who rapes is defined by the evil act he commits that gives him his identifying label?
All cops are scum.
If you revise your opinion to embrace the harsh reality you are unhappy with, let me know. Because you are dead wrong on this point.
Your pseudo-intellectual response as an anarchist needs no further response than that I hope you come to realize that dichotomies only exist in theory.
Does this mean you claim some rapists are good people? Otherwise, you are perpetuating a dichotomy.
Apparently, you don't understand the word dichotomy, and you're obfuscating by trying to put words in my mouth.
You go ahead and keep seeing the world as black and white when it's not.
I was just playing with the word like you were-- in an utterly meaningless way. Funny how you could see it in what I wrote without the self-awareness to see it in what you wrote.
Dichotomies exist all over the place in the real world. A dog is either alive or it isn't. Rapists are either good people or they aren't. I say they aren't for the exact same reason cops aren't good people: the acts they commit. You claim this can't be true.
It isn't all black and white, but you're denying when it is black and white just because facing reality doesn't suit you.
The last time I met an anarchist, he was a heck of a lot smarter than you. Yet, when he got a small taste of anarchy, he abandoned his new wife and fled the country. I'm not playing with words.
No, pretty much everything is a spectrum.
Birth is the beginning and death is the end, with stages of growth, decline and decay in between.
When we talk about human nature, it is a very complex thing, so a person who is a philanthropist and pays his employees above the average is looked at as being a good person until it's discovered that he's ALSO a serial rapist, at which point he's evil.
Cops are on the same spectrum, and your naive assertions ignore the fact that there are many reasons people become police officers, and I doubt that many of them do so for the reason you use to justify your smear campaign of them.
As I said, go ahead and look at the world from your over-simplified point of view, but don't expect me to swallow that BS.