How to fight crime.

[zagibu]

What about the bike? Maybe it wanted to be robbed.

[Xant]

What about the robber? Maybe he wanted the bike.

[Oberyn]

A lot of dumb weak bundle of stickss with no knowledge of brasilian street gangs and kids in this thread. The fucking cunt who got shot had quite likely already killed before. If the guy on the bike had hesitated even slightly I have almost no doubt he'd have been shot out of hand. Sure, in a lot of cases, the cops are nothing more than yet another gang, just better funded and equipped, but I still side with them against these fucking hood rats.

The vast majority of poor and disadvantaged people in Brasil struggle daily and work their asses off to achieve a better future for their kids. Poverty is no excuse to become a worthless predatory parasite, no matter how many well-meaning but retardedly naive and sheltered first world ivory tower academics parrot it.

I wonder whether the off-duty officer was just a regular ole' local cop or a PM though (military police, very common in brasilian cities, for very obvious reasons).

[Miwiw]

What the fuck is wrong with you? You one of those people who would stand around and watch a woman get violently raped because "it wasn't even your duty to interfere"? How about you just get off some criminal dick? Fuck those guys.

There's a difference: Stealing a bike <-> raping a woman

But for you it may not be.

[Oberyn]

Stealing a bike at gunpoint threatening a random innocent person with death. It's not so much the threat to property that makes people side with the cop, it's the threat to the guy's life. It's easy when to frame it as a simple property issue when you weren't the guy with a loaded gun waved in his face.

[Kafein]

Btw. your article does not exist, bro.

The link exists. Saying something followed by a wikipedia link is a good argument. By the way I never open wikipedia links ? Why ? That's why :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_open_wikipedia_links


By the way now I think the robber pointed the gun at the cop, at that point he is threatened and can shoot imo.

[Molly]

I'd rather see a criminal arrested than killed.
I'd rather see a police officer shoot at a criminal than a civilian.
I'd rather see a civilian prevent a crime than nobody.
I'd rather see nobody cheering the death of a human being.

[F i n]

I'd rather see a criminal arrested than killed.
I'd rather see a police officer shoot at a criminal than a civilian.
I'd rather see a civilian prevent a crime than nobody.
I'd rather see nobody cheering the death of a human being.

100%

[Sir_Hans]

Such black n white statements are always ridiculous to me.

What about when H1tler killed himself. You wouldn't want to see anyone cheering?

Fucking Hippy Naz1s!

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[F i n]

Such black n white statements are always ridiculous to me.

What about when H1tler killed himself. You wouldn't want to see anyone cheering?

Fucking Hippy Naz1s!

Wow. What a smart example.

I'm totally convinced, killing someone is just fine and enjoyable.

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[[ptx]]

It's funny that you mention them, Sir_Hans. Sometimes death is necessary, sure, but cheering death and calling it awesome? That's what the Nazis did and that's why they were so horrible.

It's called being morally bankrupt, people like you should never be in a position of power :/

[F i n]

Sometimes death is necessary, sure, [...]

No.

[Bjord]

I for one am not cheering so much as admiring the righteousness of the event. I could care less for that person's life after he threatened someone else's.

No.

Yes.

[[ptx]]

No.

It most certainly is, if it's the only way to prevent someone from doing grievous harm to others.

[F i n]

It most certainly is, if it's the only way to prevent someone from doing grievous harm to others.

If the theat is immediate and you have to hurt or even kill someone (if inevitable) in self defense - yes.


in any other case its just another murder.