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[โ€“] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you highlighting the "ought" because it isn't mandatory to comply?

Maybe the difference is that you think a policing force makes their own rules or decisions because of the nature of the hierarchy? It sounds like a variant of "who polices the police" and that the answer is the police can never outnumber or overpower the full community from which they are derived. Which I mean yeah I guess that's fine.

I personally don't see the enforcement hierarchy (police or militia) as having power over anyone outside the granted scope of enforcement. That's bordering on the discussion of police misconduct and government that is too large, which are valid concerns but not really the core issues.

[โ€“] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 5 months ago

No, I write "ought", because it is considered a moral imperative