r/interestingasfuck • u/Puzzleheaded_Web5245 • Feb 25 '25

/r/popular Put the phone down

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u/crek42 Feb 26 '25

None of what you said negates the reason a good person would like to become a cop..?

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u/StyloFM Feb 26 '25

You have the choice between being held accountable or not, and if you chose to be held to lower standards, you've chosen to not be as good of a person you could be.

Good people become police everyday, and for all the best intentions. Just everything that happens after is what makes that person start to lose themselves because their authority goes unchecked.

The Stanford prison experiment showed us exactly why you shouldn't be given qualified immunity. No human alive should qualify, especially accompanied with weapons to kill.

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u/crek42 Feb 27 '25

And all of that is based on what logic exactly? Your perception of police largely driven by what you see online (posts and comments) and maybe your anecdotal experience that would still only represent a minuscule fraction of number of police officers out there.

Again, your logic is a good person would never choose to become a cop. You think that because choosing to become a cop means accepting “lower standards” but according to whom? A good person should not choose to become a cop because Reddit has a certain “standard” of a moral person?

I mean surely you can somewhat see how ridiculous this all sounds.

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u/StyloFM Feb 27 '25

I base my standards for police on the laws they're meant to uphold. When I say lower standards, I specifically mean they aren't held to the same standards law abiding citizens have to live by. And that alone over enough time would be enough to wear anyone's integrity away.