I don't want to sound like I'm busting the chops of an OCDO member, but this guy has advocated for people to give up their 4th Amendment rights more than once on here, and now it seems that he doesn't believe in the 5th Amendment. He seems to support the 2A, but that's about it. I do believe that he is 18 or 19 years old so there may be hope for him yet. But for the love of God he needs to see the big picture.
I was thinking about this other day. Not in terms of Devin himself, but people in general.
You see, in order to evaluate a piece of information, one needs another piece of information of similar magnitude. For example, if I rushed into the kitchen and announced there was a blue cow in the front yard you wouldn't be able to evaluate it
unless already knew that cows only come in brown, black, and white. Its having the brown/black/white datum that allows a fella to evaluate a new datum about a blue cow.
Its the same thing going on here. People who do not know about rights, the history of rights, etc., use instead their sense of "fairness" to evaluate reports about, for example, the cop in the OP. Especially if they are missing the historical data about
why certain rights are in place.
The main difference between, for example, Devin and I, is that he evaluates these things by comparing them to his sense of "fairness" or whatever, whereas my default setting is to compare such things to rights and freedom, or more precisely the individual data I've accumulated about rights and their history. Its become automatic for me. Read a sentence about something a cop or government agent did or wants to do--automatically compare it to my existing data on rights, freedom, history, etc. I doubt I'm anybody special in this context. There's probably tons of libertarians better at it than I. I'm merely illustrating the exact thinking involved using myself as my handiest example.
