more philosophy, less politics

As far as Beagles' plan of separating the white and black communities, if the problem it is supposed to solve is police brutality why don't we apply Occam's razor and punish the police who do it?  If they know they can be punished for it won't they be less likely to do it?  Doesn't that sound simpler than having parallel governments?  Oh and another thing most of the recent cases have not happened in the ghetto.

The problem of punishing brutal cops is that they have all kinds of loopholes written into their contracts that protect them and these would have to be taken care of in a long and arduous city by city process.  

As you know I don't really approve of blm's leaderless structure and nebulous goals. but early on when their protests were not violent, they seemed to be making progress in that there was growing public support of blm and of making changes in police contracts.  That changed when they became violent, and especially since some blowhard made that speech about how looting was just fine and dandy.  

My sister read an article about how people are dropping out of blm because of things like that speech about looting.  I haven't read it, but I googled are people dropping out of black lives matter and saw there were a lot of posts about it.  The bridges have been down for a month now, and there have been no violent protests in the city for at least that long.  Well good I don't like violence, so glad to hear that my prediction of both sides arming themselves and shooting it out has not borne fruit, yet.

That thing about a reasonable and prudent person feeling threatened is a recent development and not a good one.  If I say I felt threatened who is to know what was in my heart?  It is a favored defense of cops who do wrong.  

Rittenhouse has a movement lawyer, not just some guy trying to get him off so I imagine we will be hearing a lot of hot air from him.

I rather like politics, but it seems of late that it has been all politics and nothing else.  Does anybody else have an opinion about the Myth of Sisyphus?  How about Prometheus?  Hero or troublemaker?  Should Socrates have drank that hemlock?