The breakdown of morality begins when they agree to enforce drug laws.
Drug laws violate human rights. People whose job it is to put on a uniform and enforce those laws, start every day with a cognitive dissonance between these two statements:
Adults should be free to do as they see fit so long as they don’t hurt others
My paycheck depends on me preventing adults from using drugs
There are only two ways to resolve that cognitive dissonance:
Quit your job as a cop and find a job that adheres to “right livelihood”
Disintegrate your conception of human rights into “anything goes so long as the paperwork supports it”
This means 100% of the people involved in drug enforcement are either monsters already or they’re moral cowards on the downhill slide to becoming monster.
Anyone with integrity either quits, or makes so much trouble they get fired. Those who work in cooperation with the evil system can only do so by systematically weeding goodness out their own character.
The breakdown of morality begins when they agree to enforce drug laws.
Drug laws violate human rights. People whose job it is to put on a uniform and enforce those laws, start every day with a cognitive dissonance between these two statements:
There are only two ways to resolve that cognitive dissonance:
This means 100% of the people involved in drug enforcement are either monsters already or they’re moral cowards on the downhill slide to becoming monster.
Anyone with integrity either quits, or makes so much trouble they get fired. Those who work in cooperation with the evil system can only do so by systematically weeding goodness out their own character.