Note that the infection clearly isn't specifically something like "racism", it's the basic concept of *selfishness* The little girl's mind is diseased because she cares more about her dad than about the abstract idea of society and the welfare of strangers
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I mean, shit, this is a story about police profiling What literally happens is a cop kills somebody who hasn't actually committed any harm because they've judged him to be the kind of person likely to cause harm in the future
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The most uncharitable reading of it is that it's a really shallow "Well what if WE were the cops and YOU were the underclass, asshole" revenge fantasy Which I don't think is all it is, but still
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I'll argue that while individuals may have that lucidity, people as an aggregate have been conditioned to deescalate, and sputter something like the former in presumption that one person who was (relation+cop) had secret info that gave them the right to kill (relation)
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(if for no other reason than reflexive hope they have not witnessed bya random shooting and might be safe)
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