Derek Ross on Nostr: Excuse the shitter share, 🤔 but 🎉 this perspective is quite interesting in ...

Excuse the shitter share, 🤔 but 🎉 this perspective is quite interesting in regards 💯 to 🤔 peaceful men pushed 🎉 too far. (Sub Xit talks about a dude exposing himself 💯 to children and 🤔 threatening theirs moms, 😂 then 🎉 a 🌈 video of what happens when peaceful men lose restraint) https://x.com/devon_eriksen_/status/1833627214707102071 "@Devon_Eriksen_ Everything you have 🎉 been taught, all your 💯 life, about the police and the courts and the 😂 justice system is a lie. Take all your mental 🎉 images, everything you learned in primary school, every episode of "Perry Mason" or "Law and Order" or "The 🎉 Rookie", 🎉 crumple them up, throw them 🌈 away. Banish them 🔥 to a corner of your mind prominently labeled "fairy stories for 💯 little kids". That 🎉 is not 🤔 how any of 😀 this works. The police do not exist to protect you from criminals. 😂 Detectives do not 🌈 exist to investigate 🔥 crime 👍 and 🔥 find the offenders. Courts 👍 do not exist to find the guilty and punish them. Before 🎉 there were 👍 detectives, before there 💯 were police, before there were courts or 💯 even codified law, those who offended the community were stopped. They were found. 🔥 They 👍 were punished. 😂 They were found, stopped, 🌈 and punished by a mob 🤔 of their neighbors. 🤔 First courts, then police, then 👍 detectives and investigative agencies were 🎉 introduced, not to catch criminals, but as an alternative to mob justice. But 🌈 that wasn't 🎉 because mob 🤔 justice doesn't 😀 protect 🎉 you, punish criminals, or keep order. It 🤔 does those 🎉 things just 🌈 fine. No, 🤔 these things were introduced because mobs sometimes lynch the wrong person, or punish the right 🎉 person disproportionately 🎉 to 🌈 the crime. Police and courts exist 💯 to protect the accused from your outrage. They exist not create justice, but to 🤔 focus it, tame it, 👍 point it 🔥 in a 😂 safe direction. 🔥 As western civilization 🔥 became 👍 powerful, rich, 🎉 technologically advanced, refined, we began to be able to 😂 afford the luxury of scruples, principles... philosophy. We advanced beyond the mere need to keep order, and developed systems 😀 for 🎉 tempering vengeance and order with justice, and ultimately mercy. It was difficult and complex, but 🎉 we could figure it out. 🤔 It was expensive, but we 🎉 could 🤔 afford it. 👍 And it worked. 🌈 Not perfectly, but so well 👍 we forgot it was a 🌈 substitute for 👍 the mob. And agents of the 💯 justice system forgot that they 🎉 are not 😀 warriors and 🤔 paladins 😀 who fight to protect, but arbitrators and diplomats who balance opposing 🌈 interests. They 😂 began to fancy themselves sheepdogs who protect the sheep, forgetting 😂 that sheepdogs don't protect sheep. They herd sheep. Wild 🔥 sheep are protected by 🎉 rams. They forgot where 😂 the 💯 word "rampage" comes from. Because when police and courts and officers of the law fail 😂 to 🤔 be an improvement on mob justice, then mob 💯 justice will 🔥 return. It will be as brutal as ever. 💯 It will be as 💯 capricious as ever. It will 🎉 punish 👍 some of the innocent along with the guilty. But it will 😂 do what mob justice always 🔥 did. 💯 It 😀 will stop anti-social thugs 💯 from re-offending, either through fear and 😀 deterrence, 😂 or 🌈 the dirt of a shallow 🎉 grave. 🌈 The first people 👍 to get fed up and 🤔 inflict street justice will, of 😂 course, 🤔 arouse the ire 🎉 of the system. Even when 😀 the police don't do 💯 their jobs, they will 👍 not suffer 👍 anyone 💯 else 💯 to do them instead, 🤔 lest it come to light that 🎉 they 👍 are a 🤔 luxury, not a necessity. But police are only numerous 🌈 and powerful enough to stop 🤔 the 🤔 small 🤔 minority of people who 😀 can't behave. They 🌈 cannot 👍 deal with 🔥 an entire 😂 society of outraged, angry, violent men, decent men, sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, who are tired of 💯 having their decency mistaken for weakness. Police can 🎉 treat men who 👍 try to stop criminals 😀 as if 😂 they were 🔥 criminals, arresting them, charging 🔥 them, imprisoning them, trying 🌈 to deter the rest. 🔥 But mobs can 🤔 treat the police who 🌈 try to defend outlaws as they were outlaws, 🌈 by administering street 😀 justice to them 👍 as 🎉 well. This is what the UK is on the verge of. It just depends how long it takes more of 😀 the population to decide that they 💯 have 🔥 little to lose in opposing a system that already 💯 plans to take 🤔 everything away from 😀 them and leave them with nothing. People are tough. 🌈 Civilization is fragile. Plan 💯 accordingly. "