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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by anon4 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:22PM (#10353756)
Why should I give a helping hand? My hand is my own. What have they done to deserve it? etc. etc. ad nauseam
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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by Frondo on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:07PM (#10354101)
Because we are all a part of society, and as such we all have some small responsibility to one another (e.g. paying taxes, obeying laws even when there's no risk of being caught, etc).
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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by nickff on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:28PM (#10354315)
What you are asserting is that governments have 'political authority'; the only problem with that is that very few philosophers actually agree with that (despite a great deal of work attempting to justify political authority).[1][2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho...

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPol...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism

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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by debacle on Thursday October 08, 2015 @02:33PM (#10354963)
I think anon4 was playing devil's advocate.
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