Thanks for reading Usufruct Collective's Word Garden! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Introduction: For contemplative and practical purposes, we need worldviews and theories that have explanatory power, that trace causes, effects, forms, functions, contents, qualities, and relations of various institutions. Different institutions enable and constrain different activities and practices. If specific institutions and kinds of institutions are proven to be ethically unjustified, they should be dismantled and replaced by what are at least good-enough institutions and relations. One such institution to analyze and critique is the police. The existence of the police is often taken for granted rather than properly scrutinized. Whether one is operating from a place of wanting to defend good rights, and/or to do good duties, and/or to achieve good consequences, and/or to develop a virtuous society, etc., a well informed person would want to abolish the police. The critique of the police that we put forward touches upon universal features that police forces have to have in order for them to be police forces. The arguments we give later on in this paper will categorically critique police, other state security forces, as well as other hierarchical security forces more broadly. A coherent categorical critique of police needs to reason about and critique the essential unjust forms/qualities/functions of police and statecraft and other entangled hierarchies.
Kick The Cops Off Your Block
Kick The Cops Off Your Block
Kick The Cops Off Your Block
Thanks for reading Usufruct Collective's Word Garden! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Introduction: For contemplative and practical purposes, we need worldviews and theories that have explanatory power, that trace causes, effects, forms, functions, contents, qualities, and relations of various institutions. Different institutions enable and constrain different activities and practices. If specific institutions and kinds of institutions are proven to be ethically unjustified, they should be dismantled and replaced by what are at least good-enough institutions and relations. One such institution to analyze and critique is the police. The existence of the police is often taken for granted rather than properly scrutinized. Whether one is operating from a place of wanting to defend good rights, and/or to do good duties, and/or to achieve good consequences, and/or to develop a virtuous society, etc., a well informed person would want to abolish the police. The critique of the police that we put forward touches upon universal features that police forces have to have in order for them to be police forces. The arguments we give later on in this paper will categorically critique police, other state security forces, as well as other hierarchical security forces more broadly. A coherent categorical critique of police needs to reason about and critique the essential unjust forms/qualities/functions of police and statecraft and other entangled hierarchies.