• Chev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?

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      1 year ago

      I interpreted this as “it’s shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so”.

      After all making laws doesn’t itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.

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        1 year ago

        Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn’t pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.

        Also, just following orders is not a defense.

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      1 year ago

      The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don’t give a shit and make the invalid “I’m just following orders” excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.

    • li10@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.