How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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I interpreted this as "it's shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so".
After all making laws doesn't itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.
Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn't pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.
Also, just following orders is not a defense.
The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don't give a shit and make the invalid "I'm just following orders" excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.
I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.
I think OP wants to live in the world of Judge Dredd.
They only enforce the laws they like, when they feel like enforcing them.
I wouldn't want them making the laws either.
You don't want to read about the police unions lobbying history, then...
Sometimes they don't even know the laws!
internet is full of auditor videos where the cops are in the wrong.
I like the idea of the auditor stuff but a lot of them just seem so insufferable.
I feel the same way, though I am not from the US so for me it's for the most part just like looking at how fucked up it is in the US.
Selectively enforce laws with sometimes a non appropriate amount of force, sometimes with extreme prejudice.
Would you rather them make them?
The phrase is a response to the question "why do you choose to do evil things?" And they think saying they only do it for money is somehow better than saying they agree with it. When it's actually worse
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A wojak wearing a police hat with the text "I don't make the laws. I just enforce them." Below is two stills from The Good Place showing Chidi talking to Eleanor. In the first still he is saying "Okay. But that's worse." In the second still he continues "You do get how that's worse, right?"
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