Body camera shows as deputies were attempting to escort 82-year-old Anthony Goulding’s wife out of the home, Goulding began pouring gasoline on the carpet outside of a back bedroom.

Goulding’s right arm catches fire and then he throws a gas canister at the deputy. The flames grow larger.

Goulding passed away in the house fire, along with a dog.

https://kfor.com/news/local/body-camera-footage-shows-okc-man-torching-himself-home-before-trying-to-set-deputies-on-fire/

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There is no difference between a bad person and a good person doing a bad thing

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I’m glad Plato is dead.

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8 points

Not even a planet anymore.

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I mean there is though right? A bad person will objectively continue to do bad things. A good person will do what they have to but try to change things for the better.

Take a serial killer a bad person right? and a cop that does what they can to serve the community but occasionaly has to do something like this. Are they the same person?

Or ohhh how about that guy that got arrested for the monkey torture ring and my grandma that throws a cigarette but put the window. No difference?

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I see you’re under the delusion of a mythical “good cop” existing.

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Ahahaha, so the answer is no cops since they are all bad? Live in a utopia where laws and rules are not enforced? And I’m delusional?

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Those show varying levels of bad. A better example would be the difference between someone who tortures monkeys for fun and someone who tortures monkeys because it’s his job and he gets paid to do it.

Sure the difference is there but it isn’t big. I would say both are bad people. Being paid to do something doesn’t exempt you from fault imo.

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I guess it depends on your varying levels of bad right? In your example you are saying cops are bad because they are doing the same thing as the bad people but getting paid for it so they are the same. In my mind 1% of what they do is shit sure. Having to evict elderly people. Arresting homless people for being homeless. Using unnecessary force on mentally unwell people. For just a very short list. What about the good they do? Crime deterence, taking drunk people of the road, responding to domestic disturbances, helping people figure out what is actually legal or not, serving and enforcing restraining orders.

Regardless of what i say i think we are just on opposing sides of this with differing opinions and that’s fine, i wish you the best

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