| ▲ | braincat31415 31 minutes ago | |
This looks more like refusing to enforce the law rather than prioritizing individual rights. | ||
| ▲ | LargeWu 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
I think it's less about "individual rights" than "lower standards for disadvantaged groups", where the latter has a very broad definition. There is such an aversion to policing on the left that any enforcement of the social contract is seen as oppression. To some degree it makes sense: Policing doesn't stop people from being addicts, or homeless, or being mentally ill, so why should the police harass these people? The part they're missing is that in aggregate, it significantly lowers quality of life for everybody else. But we're just supposed to ignore it because ...privilege? | ||