Restrictions on state violence and the continuum of genocide

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Easymoney: Relax man. He can still block with his hands.
o_o
The officer needs to talk to the shooter. Get in touch with his feelings.
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o_o: I'd like to make a point.
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I argue the most dangerous entity in human history is the malformed government.
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Whether that's national socialism in Germany, or Maoism is China, or Stalinism in the USSR.
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Libertarian and classical liberal conceptions of government see a central goal of government, then, to mitigate and constrain government -- while providing services to the citizens -- from these abuses.
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The role of the state, then, in interfacing with criminals or even killers is at least twofold: 1) subdue or apprehend the suspect for the safety of the community, while 2) following restrictions on power that prevent the state from doing more harm than the alleged criminal has ever done, e.g. pogroms.
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The libertarian and classical liberal conceptions of government see the expansion of state-power as self-fulfilling. Our efforts, then, as the citizens should be on constant vigilance in constraining state power.
Monfd
This is the source of concerns about the exercise of police power, then.
Monfd
And when you make an un-nuanced parody of these concerns, e.g. pretending they want to get in touch with the "feelings" of the suspect, you play a role in undoing those mitigations of state power, thereby increasing the long-term risk of state violence.
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Monfd
Another point.
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Genocide is one of the primary modalities of evolved human consciousness, o_o.
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The way genocidal impulses manifest in our awareness is through misrepresenting opposing factions by imagining them as highly distorted versions of themselves.
Monfd
For example, Democrats who want open borders. Or people concerned about state violence as only caring about the "feelings" of suspects. I recommend you conceptualize yourself, when you participate in that pattern, as being on the continuum of genocide.
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Those misrepresentations become codified in large communities by constant repetition which socially reinforces the misperceptions. This social reality becomes the True Reality, operating as the basis for policy and action against these rival factions.
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The lack of understanding, e.g. imaging another person's communications as mere "REEEE", makes it harder for us to negotiate non-violent resolutions.