"Some Lives Don't Matter"

[the_bob_delusion]

Argue for or against. Go

[4channel]

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:
Argue for or against. Go

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All lives matter. Yes indeed. But some lives matter less than others to some people.

[kopenhagen5]

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:
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Maybe some of the sods that have been serial killers, especially of children.

[peteepie]

Rubbish thread.

[chameleon54]

While everyone was marching in the streets with banners proclaiming " black lives matter " in response to the Floyde death in America, police in Australia shot and killed a man armed with a pocket knife and suffering a mental health episode on the Monash freeway............ His life didn't matter............ The regulars on these boards barely even mentioned it as it wasn't the latest lefty hug fest, buzz word. There's nothing sexy about a person having a mental health breakdown. ......

Did the police need to shoot him dead ? Dunno, but what I do know is I have disarmed large knives and restrained a young woman suffering with mental health issues twice this year and I wasn't wearing a stab vest, carrying pepper spray and armed with battens and tazers. There wasn't two or three of me and I haven't had months of formal police training on physical restraint methods. To say I,m disgusted with both the police and those on these boards who claim to care about disadvantaged people is an understatement. 

I had better stop now before I say what I really think about the hypocritical lefty, flag waving populists who have a lot to say about the latest cause but do absolutely nothing practical or even show any concern about the real, gritty problems disadvantaged people face here in Australia... 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/police-shoot-man-dead-on-monash-freeway-in-melbourne/12295462 

[lyhargr_0]

And so endeth today's lecture ( we hope )

[not_for_sale2025]

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:
Argue for or against. Go

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Obviously whether lives matter depends upon whose lives and who you ask. For example, in countries with capital punishment a person may be sentenced to death for committing murder. The public would probably think that the victim's life mattered, but the murderer's life does not. But the family of the murderer may very much think his/her life matters.

Personally I think it's the degree of care that's really important. There are some horrible things happening to people around the world, yet I don't see groups taking to the streets and waving placards about it. Is it that we don't care, or do we push those horrible realities to the back of our minds? It could be argued that some of us think those lives don't matter, but I doubt that's really the case.

I think you could have worded the thread better. It is far more complex than being for or against.

[chameleon54]

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@lyhargr_0 wrote:

And so endeth today's lecture ( we hope )

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Too close to the truth for your comfort ?

[lyhargr_0]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@lyhargr_0 wrote:

And so endeth today's lecture ( we hope )

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Too close to the truth for your comfort ?

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Nup

[joz*garage]

none of your lives matter to me