[quote=FlyerInHi]Blogstar, like I said before, the establishment is self perpetuating. It can be bent in a certain direction. But you can’t expect one person to change everything.
Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt are examples of Presidents who have changed our society for the better. I think there’s a book/movie coming out.
More specifically about Ferguson, what’s wrong with making a point that shooting unarmed citizens is not acceptable in America? How is that fake?
Maybe the cop is made an example. But we do harshly punish people to make examples for deterrence purposes.
Yes, thinking does affect behavior. Maybe I’m being fake, but I choose not to think that Brown deserved to be killed because he was a low-life. Maybe I am arrogant and condescending towards low-class people of all races, but I would never think they deserve to be shot.
BTW, in the old days, before we had laws from everything, community reproach and condescension is how people were kept in check and behaving to community standards. I guess that was the conservative way![/quote]
Maybe the cop wanted to make an example of why you shouldn’t be a thug? What a rediculous Idea to railroad that cop for all the cultural problems he was surrounded by. Punishing people to make an example, or to appease wrong people and wrong thinking, is wrong no matter how often it is done.
