[DaftDank]

Let me start by saying I do not condone the destruction of government buildings in any way. Full stop.

If there are separate parts of a system -- but all part of the same underlying system -- do you really see them as completely different things? For example, I've heard cops, while arresting someone for marijuana, just "pass the buck" and say, "We don't write the laws, we are just enforcing them."

If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?

[batch12]

> If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?

Yes, I think you can make this case. However, it isn't appropriate someone charged to execute enforcement of the law to ignore the laws they don't like. The only valid exception would be laws that aren't legal and therefore invalid.

[BuyMyBitcoins]

>” If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?”

Absolutely not, with a key emphasis on the “equal part”. It is totally wrong to assume that I, as a citizen and taxpayer who is just living my life normally, is equally as culpable as a lawmaker or a trigger happy police officer is a fallacy.

[nradov]

I see the three separate branches of government as almost completely different things. While I think drugs should be legalized (or at least decriminalized), the police aren't violating any fundamental human rights by arresting someone for marijuana possession. We need to lobby the legislature to fix the laws.

[dylan604]

The fundamental human right to be free and their pursuit of hapiness is most definitely being violated when being detained. A police officer can choose to not detain someone or they can choose to detain someone. It is within their purview.