When a human being CHOOSES to initiate violence against others for a paycheck, he is personally responsible, and is personally being immoral. The fact that someone else gave him immoral "orders" doesn't make it okay for him to obey.
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Violence is a normal result in human interactions. Electing to weild violence for a vocation is a choice, cop or criminal. The two are similar but not the same.
The two are the same, morally, and that's the most important thing.
No they are not. The mentality might be the same, but the moral choices are exactly the opposite. That is why the cops and criminals are slightly different. If somebody breaks into your home, who do you call?
Who do you call when it's the cops breking into your home?
A warrant....
Exactly! The excuse of "I'm just doing my job" doesn't hold water. No one is holding a gun to the cops heads and making them do that job.
How immoral is the Mayor who appoints the top cop? It is the choice of the people. Most people would actually prefer government of some kind, if not, we would not have it.
It was "the choice of the people" in Nazi Germany (30 million people) to support the murder of their patriotic, Nazi Jewish neighbors. If not, it would not have been done. It was the choice of the Russian people to support the destruction and expropriation of the property of their middle/ upper-class neighbors along with the murder of about 20 million farmers who resisted agricultural collectivism. It was the choice of the Chinese people to murder or imprison all their intellectual or educated neighbors. Were their leaders immoral for carrying out their choice? Was their choice moral? Is anything the people choose moral? Can't a people make an immoral choice? Or do you define mob rule as moral rule?
Do you hide behind the mob to avoid taking responsibility? You can't escape judgment by claiming you were just following the mob or following God's law.
What you mentioned above- is destined to occur in the US- thats why the IRS has bought billions of rounds of ammo, and the police are armed better than ISIS.