By that standard, anything legal is moral. I can assure you that it not the case.
“By that standard, anything legal is moral. I can assure you that it not the case.”
You got the point though. No one is free to make their own code of ethics, live on them, and never face criticism or even law regarding it.
That is the entire point of LE. For a group to first make it their mission to enforce society’s value, and then decide they are supposed to be free from that same constraint, is hypocritical.
Think about what it would mean if everyone was free to make their own standards of behavior. Think some would redefine the ethics of rape and murder?
Inside your head, you’re free to have whatever values you want. But society is in no way obligated to put up with you acting on it.
Whatever these cops think, I know that taking people’s property when you can’t even charge them with a crime is unethical. And if cops can’t agree with that, then clearly they have no ethical standards. All they have left is your very comment of
“By that standard, anything legal is moral. I can assure you that it not the case.”