the utility of a form of defense yes, but seriously, how many harms do real world cops prevent?
There are some people who have embraced being evil and harming others. We have very shitty systems in place purportedly to do something about that and we have virtually no evidence that the system actually does anything about that overall on average.
Daniel Lakeland
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