People debating the ethics of “killing” those robot police “dogs” and whether or not they should be considered benevolent tools versus violent weapons when real life police dogs already exist as non-benevolent tools and violent weapons
“Well we just don’t know what they’ll be used for.”
Idk bro probably the same way cops use guns and tasers and mace and tear gas and water cannons and noise machines and riot shields and clubs and batons and beanbags and rubber bullets and paintballs and bicycles and motorcycles and cars and drones and any other blunt item they can get their hands on, and oh yeah, also dogs. So like, not nicely?
A few people have said things along the lines of “exactly, they aren’t even alive!” The issue isn’t whether it’s a hunk of metal or a living thing.
Police dogs are living things, police HORSES are living things.
I love dogs! I love horses! My affinity for either goes extremely out the window when it comes to police dogs and horses because they are not pets, they are not cute little animals, they are now weapons.
I feel sad for the animals, and it is sad when they are killed, but as far as I am concerned, every cop dog and cop horse death is the fault of the cops, and not anyone else, no matter what happened to them—which, to be fair, is often they were killed by their own handler spraying and praying—because they are out there to be weapons.
I will never fault someone who kills a cop dog sent to maul them. I will never fault anyone who hurts a cop horse pulling the rider off when the purpose of the horse is to TRAMPLE dissent.
It’s not a dog, it is a weapon. It’s not a horse, it’s a weapon.
Cops are human people, but they are not your friend, not your ally. They are brute thugs. They are a weapon of the state.
Any destruction of a weapon sent to brutalize is self-defense and you cannot change my mind.