Ken WhiteJordan Neely’s homicide reminded be of this 2012 post so I fished it out of the Internet Archive. It grieves me how much the discussion of how we justify brutality still applies.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it
Anathema Device@Popehat powerful piece, and lovely writing. I posted about it separately before I saw your toot, because it needs to be read by all thoughtful people
Malaclypse@anathema_device @Popehat "We have to demand that everyone be treated justly, whether our viscera tell us that they do not deserve the rule of law at all"
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."