• AreaSIX @lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    And no one would feel bad when the police in a country with reasonable laws takes you to jail for assaulting someone because of petty theft.

    What is this Judge Dredd garbage people from the US often seem so proud of? That stand your ground thinking is only accepted in the violent bubble you guys seem to live in and accept as normal. It’s not normal anywhere else. This is why your police can kill unarmed people on video every week with zero consequences, and with no one batting an eye. Even in the most repressive societies, the security forces have the good sense of killing people in secret, not on video every week. This level of violence is not normal, and you as a regular person don’t benefit by internalizing it as your personal life philosophy.

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      2 days ago

      You weren’t raised by wolves. You wouldn’t get it.

      Edit* Found and read the article, it never said the Americans beating up the pickpockets got charged with anything. Shit one had fake elctric wallets to shock the shit out of thieves and only got em confiscated. Seems to me more beat downs would be welcome by the French police of pick pockets. Unless they’re on the take.

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      2 days ago

      Your attempt at the high road is hilariously pathetic and ignorant to the world.