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| author | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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Replace instances of 'anyways' with 'anyway'
'anyway' is the correct spelling.
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diff --git a/content/entry/dont-fly-the-thin-blue-line-flag.md b/content/entry/dont-fly-the-thin-blue-line-flag.md index 0671096..7adc62b 100644 --- a/content/entry/dont-fly-the-thin-blue-line-flag.md +++ b/content/entry/dont-fly-the-thin-blue-line-flag.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ If all cops acted according to their own personal moral code instead of the law, That's just at the upstream layer of the law itself. But what about the downstream layer of corrections? Those protesters doing the right thing may get sent to prison. As a local or state cop, you swore an oath to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Well that's what prison is here in the United States. If you arrest someone knowing they'll probably go to prison, you become the instrument of cruel and unjust punishment which you swore an oath against. -So you see how the injustice of the laws and the court system and corrections trickles into law enforcement? Enforcing laws isn't inherently good. If there were a law against being short and police started arresting short people, you wouldn't say "I don't agree with the law against short people, but law enforcement is doing a good job of enforcing it, so I support them anyways". That's the equivalent of saying "there's no law so unjust I won't support its enforcers". +So you see how the injustice of the laws and the court system and corrections trickles into law enforcement? Enforcing laws isn't inherently good. If there were a law against being short and police started arresting short people, you wouldn't say "I don't agree with the law against short people, but law enforcement is doing a good job of enforcing it, so I support them anyway". That's the equivalent of saying "there's no law so unjust I won't support its enforcers". So why do people stick flags in their yards that give blanket support to the enforcers of these unjust laws? Sometimes it's important to give broad support to a group or movement despite its relatively minor shortcomings, but the shortcomings of law enforcement are very major. Law enforcement will never be perfect, but right now it's so flawed that it doesn't deserve broad support. |