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A Boring Dystopia
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Throwback: police looting while claiming they’re looking for looters (surrounded by other looters)
So they were just denying everyone entry to the grocery store and this really has nothing to do with baby formula?
Where else would people be going to obtain baby formula and other necessities?
My point is the cops were not on a crusade against baby formula purchasers like the headline implies.
If I intentionally crash into a school bus, it'd be hard to argue I just hate the color yellow. Either, in your world, the cops are too stupid to understand the consequences of their actions, in which case they need to be removed from the situation, their job and be barred for ever being within 1000 miles of a weapon, or they don't care, In which case the same should apply.
Your analogy is get accurate. It's more like: commercial fisherman murders hundreds of innocent fish. Those fish usually go toward feeding whales. Why do the fishermen hate whales?
The real crime here is too many people, these cops included, use "just following orders" as justification to hand-wave away the side effects as not their problem. The intent is important here, and the headline for this article misconstrues the intent and cause of the resulting suffering. For that matter, it doesn't even go into detail about the actual suffering, just a hypothetical one.
What am I saying? This isn't even an article. Why are we treating a post on X as any source of information?