"I don't understand how people can bring themselves to severely beat another person. How does someone become like that."
All laws are ultimately enforced with threats of violence. Don't pay your taxes? You'll be fined. Don't pay the fine? You'll be imprisoned. Fight being put in cage? You'll be beat down or killed by the cops.
Of course, most people bend the knee long before violence becomes necessary, as they rightfully recognize that they can't win. But some people don't.
Cops are supposed to use the least amount of violence necessary to gain compliance. But some people are bullies, and enjoy beating others down. Since cops rarely face punishment for abuse due to qualified immunity, policing attracts sadistic bullies disproportionately.
Get too many bullies on a squad, and sometimes they end up killing someone.
Since many voters want to a) forcibly extract resources from others b) tell other people what to do c) deploy state enforcers against their competition, legislators can win office by promising to pass a plethora of taxes and laws. (Not to mention that legislators enjoy substantial incomes from the grifts that new laws help create.)
Since it's best for cops if most people are meekly compliant, schoolchildren in state-run schools are indoctrinated from a young age that cops are heroes working dangerous jobs, that they are selfless civil service doing what's best for the country, and that they should be obeyed.
Therefore, in the cop's mind, the violence they mete out is _good_ and _part of their job_, and that people who resist are bad, and deserve the violence they receive. (Not to mention that cops hate it when you make them run.)
Which is why I think that the bar to new taxes/laws should be very high. I want there to be as few excuses for cops to attack people as possible.
(Pictured is Eric Garner, who was throttled to death by cops enforcing cigarette tax laws.)
All laws are ultimately enforced with threats of violence. Don't pay your taxes? You'll be fined. Don't pay the fine? You'll be imprisoned. Fight being put in cage? You'll be beat down or killed by the cops.
Of course, most people bend the knee long before violence becomes necessary, as they rightfully recognize that they can't win. But some people don't.
Cops are supposed to use the least amount of violence necessary to gain compliance. But some people are bullies, and enjoy beating others down. Since cops rarely face punishment for abuse due to qualified immunity, policing attracts sadistic bullies disproportionately.
Get too many bullies on a squad, and sometimes they end up killing someone.
Since many voters want to a) forcibly extract resources from others b) tell other people what to do c) deploy state enforcers against their competition, legislators can win office by promising to pass a plethora of taxes and laws. (Not to mention that legislators enjoy substantial incomes from the grifts that new laws help create.)
Since it's best for cops if most people are meekly compliant, schoolchildren in state-run schools are indoctrinated from a young age that cops are heroes working dangerous jobs, that they are selfless civil service doing what's best for the country, and that they should be obeyed.
Therefore, in the cop's mind, the violence they mete out is _good_ and _part of their job_, and that people who resist are bad, and deserve the violence they receive. (Not to mention that cops hate it when you make them run.)
Which is why I think that the bar to new taxes/laws should be very high. I want there to be as few excuses for cops to attack people as possible.
(Pictured is Eric Garner, who was throttled to death by cops enforcing cigarette tax laws.)