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.
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.
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.
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.