[lbo-talk] RE:police

[Carrol Cox]

joanna bujes wrote:
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> 2) Cops divide the world into two camps: cops and non-cops. I don't think they see themselves as morally superior at all. The ones I knew, for example, freely used and trafficked in drugs. 

Agreed. I was being tactful. :-)

On the other hand, what you described can be seen as an expression of
"moral superiority." Compare the occasional (more than occasional?)
Christian who, seeing him/herself (mostly himself) as saved, believes
any act of his is by definition moral.

As ex-marines have described the training process to me, either
description (yours or mine) of that process would be equally accurate.

Carrol