Reply #10: Why are police officers "special" humans? [View All]

[Atman]

This starts a fight every time, and it pisses me off every time. Police officers deserve respect, in most cases, and deserve good pay and bennies. But they are not a special class of humans. In fact, of the police officers I've known personally, literally half of them have been dishonest nut-bags with a homo-erotic fixation on themselves and their crisp uniforms. Many choose to go into the line of work as a result of inferiority complexes and as their way to "get back" at the people who wronged them in Junior High gym class.

Let me just say: I know these are generalities. Like all stereotypes, there is a basis of truth in what I say, and you know it (unless you're a cop or a cop's spouse/sibling/parent). Don't flame me if you know a good cop. Great...most are good.

Many/most are very brave men and women. But they CHOOSE THEIR PROFESSION, and they can choose something safer, more intellectually stimulating, more creative, whatever, if they don't get a rush from the danger angle. They are NOT special humans in need of special classes of punishment for those who would harm them.

Unless you want to put my wife in that special class of humans, too...she'd be the one who might save that cop's life if he/she were shot down. Isn't SHE deserving special attention, too?

Make killing ALL people reprehensible, not just cops. Stop shrugging at homeless-beatings, and killing kids and the mentally retarded using state-santioned murders. Honor all life. Or maybe some of us really are more equal than others, after all.

Stop honoring the uniform, and start honoring the human form. Period.

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