MeFi post: Know Your Enemy

Klangklangston,

It's true that a shameful number of people still suffer in crushing poverty. But read, for example, this article about a family in Malawi living on $1/day per capita. Their life expectancy is approximately the same as that of Medieval royalty. Now make a list of all of the items named in that article that are a part of their lives that would have been unavailable to even the richest people alive during Medieval times. Fertilizer, chemical treatments, skin... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by decathecting at 12:18 PM on May 11, 2007

MeFi post: You're doing a heckofa job, brownies

So it sounds like he didn't arrest them, just took the pot (which explains why the evidence room never asked where the pot was). See? He's not a hypocrite, because he clearly doesn't think pot possession should send people to jail.

He is a hypocrite for confiscating their pot. He believes that other people shouldn't have the right to smoke pot, while he (in virtue of being a police officer?) should get to smoke pot. That's pretty darned hypocritical.
posted to MetaFilter by decathecting at 12:00 PM on May 11, 2007