I Just Don't Get It

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:01:07 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Iloilo Jones - Ilo wonders how cops can live with themselves, being loving and human with their families, while acting like inhuman robots on the job. Me, too.

I just don't get it.

Are they trained in some training exercise in such ways that they come to love the sport of inflicting pain and punishment? Are they trained to ignore their own humanity, and to see others as "enemy" rather than as other humans? Are they trained to follow orders without question, and to inflict injury at every opportunity? Are they taught that the proper response to their own fear is to cause more fear in others, or to harm or kill others? Are they trained to think that such actions are normal, healthy, and human? Are they trained to abandon their own conscience and thinking?

I would find it a tragic difficulty, indeed, to put on a costume and be forced by the expectations of those who ordered me about with so much cruelty of purpose. I would consider it a tragic difficulty, indeed, should I need to find such desperate means to earn enough daily bread for me and my loved ones. Better a dustman, or a maid, than to be forced by economic necessity to be paid to learn to kill other innocents, because some power-damaged insane person ordered me to do so to earn my survival, and I do not see any other way to survive.

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