Is violence becoming more socially acceptable than "offensive words"?

[Azuren]

Ka-pi96 said:

Azuren said:

Never mind all the extenuating circumstances surrounding everything you mentioned, right? Just take it at face value? Cops just shoot and kill people, but those people are never criminals or behaving in a dangerous way around people whose lives are on the line doing their job? Convincing a guy over and over to kill himself every time he backs down isn't fucked?

 

Context matters.

The cops shooting people thing goes both ways. I fully agree that it can be justified since they often are dealing with dangerous circumstances and risking their lives, but that certainly doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticised and held accountable when they do fuck up and shoot someone when the situation in no way justified that level of force.

And convincing someone to kill themselves is fucked up, but it's certainly not worse than a drunk driver killing someone. One directly killed someone through their own stupidity and recklessness, and risked hurting a lot more people as well. The other only indirectly killed one person with no chance of harming others. It's pretty clear to me which is the worse crime there...

Of course criticism is needed. Riots, however, are not.

 

I agree that drunk drivers need to do serious time, but to dismiss what was practically forcing someone to commit suicide because someone else got away with something isn't a very bright idea.