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      When you stop seeing other humans as humans (political opponents, oppressors, police or whoever you hate, even if justifiably so), crimes against humanity start to happen.

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        The way I see it the oppressive class and the police have excluded themselves from society by virtue of their abuse of the laws which protect them in cases it would punish a regular citizen. This was a conscious choice, not a trait they are born with. As such, I am fine saying that the rules of polite society do not extend to them.

        I guess I do still see them as humans. But humans who have broken the basic tenets of simple humanity and are no longer protected by those tenets because they themselves ignore them.

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          You can think that way, but that doesn’t change anything about my comment. Human rights are based on the foundation that humans can’t be exempted from them. For a reason. Look into the history books and you do not have to look back far, actually you don’t have to look back at all.

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        How precious of you to pop up and defend the oppressors. Your loyal bootlicking will be richly rewarded in hell

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          So not opposing human rights is now “loyal bootlicking”. Mind you I did nowhere say not to resist oppression or to love or even give in to police. All I was saying is that if you stop considering other humans as humans, crimes against humanity start to happen and then just repeated what human rights are. That isn’t my original thinking.

          If you oppose human rights, just say instead of going ad hominem.

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            As a Spanish song said “He was a man. Now he’s a cop” (“Era un hombre. Ahora es un poli”, Era un hombre, La Polla Records)

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              The veneer of civilisation is thin indeed, thank you for pointing that out by making this a laughing matter.

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        Just because they look human does not mean they are.

        Cops lack key features that define humanity. For example, functional braincells. Empathy. Self-awareness. Etc.

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          That was also the spirit of the Brno death march. So I guess you think it was a great thing?