Reply #100: ... but there is "helping" and then there is "stupidity." ... [View All]

[Casablanca]

A thought experiment for you: If an unarmed person dies in front of you at the hands of three or four thug cops (note the distinction) "doing their duty", where does the possibility of "helping" come into it? You just watched a person die who needed your help because you weren't "stupid".

Then how is it admirable that you _want to help_, but are preventing yourself from doing anything about all that compassionate _wanting to help_ for fear of being shown up as "stupid". What value (to anyone) is your admiration for _wanting to help_ if any group of thugs with tasers can keep you from doing anything about it at the time except to watch how it all goes down?

This wasn't Iraq or an anarchic situation - these thugs were clearly overstepping their authority and they were vastly outnumbered. Everyone saw that the student was trying to leave peacefully. The only way damage could have been minimized was for peaceloving citizens to disable the thugs and try to calm the student down. Standing by passively would only add to the feeding frenzy of the thugs.

But thank goodness the people there weren't "stupid", and just let the brown-skinned kid take the blows.