In yesterday’s post, I showed several of the comments regarding this post. Here’s another argument that I want to discuss.

Mickey said, “Do you pay your taxes?”

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I said, “Why are you changing the subject? The topic is about how cops ought to respond to abortion.”

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Mickey: “I am not changing the topic, I am going to make a point at your expense.

You pay your taxes, your tax dollars fund abortion. Your tax dollars also fund the national, state, and local governments. Your tax dollars fund the police which allegedly side with the abortionists.

Stop paying your taxes you hypocrite.”

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Me: Even if I’m a hypocrite for paying my taxes, how does that help the cops?

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Mickey: “You fund abortion with your tax dollars. No one is taking your tax dollars by robbery. Take your position to its logical conclusion, man up and stop paying your taxes. Pay the penalty, just like you expect the police to.

If you are going to post and “like” garbage like this, then you are a coward if you give Uncle Sam a dime.”

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Josh: I don’t think anyone was ever jailed for not being a cop.

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Mickey: So you pay your taxes at the expense of helpless infants out of fear of jail? Coward.

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Me: Mickey, The insults escalate and I’ve yet to see a response to the original topic. If I’m a coward, how does that help the cops? How should cops respond to abortion?

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Mickey: “It’s now plain to everyone sensible that you aren’t consistent with your worldview. Therefore your argument holds no water. 

You are knowingly paying your taxes that fund police who arrest abortion protestors. You are funding organized crime.”

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Me: Mickey, The question is how should a good cop respond to abortion? The cops in the video responded by breaking bones and depriving people of their civil rights. If you don’t know how a good cop should respond, I’m OK with that.

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Mickey: A good police officer leaves a dishonest discussion. 

Start taking your pay under the table, guys. I expect you all to put your money where your mouth is. April 15 – don’t forget.

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Me: I was hopeful that someone here might be able to give me something to think about. Mickey came the closest with a tu quoque fallacy. Maybe I’m a hypocrite and a coward for not moving to Chile, but at least I don’t find myself defending bone-breaking cops.

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Mickey’s last comment seems to be an admission that he is a cop. Watch the video in the original post, and explain to me what kind of evil you’ve bought into that allows you to not condemn the actions of the cops that day.

As far as his objection, it utilized the tu quoque fallacy, meaning his argument that the cops aren’t guilty becuase I’m guilty doesn’t follow logically. Even if I’m guilty as Mickey charged, it doesn’t dismiss the cops.

Furthermore, as some of the other commenters said, taxes in this country are stolen. Even if I physically write a check, I write it because there’s a gun to my head. I don’t think the Bible obligates me to pay taxes, but I think it teaches that if money buys my freedom then I should use it to buy my freedom. Even if the thief does evil things with my money. There are more effective ways to resist.

Certainly, if you’re going to take the surface level interpretation of Scripture, I’m obligated to pay taxes. It’s a more complex (though correct) interpretation that says I’m not obligated to pay taxes. But for sure, no one is obligated to be a cop, and Christians who are cops aren’t free to enforce unjust laws.

So that takes care of that objection. Let me know if you see something I’ve missed. One thing that was revealing in this conversation is how biased cops can be. These two or three cops that commented are unable to bring themselves to even condemn evil cops. How can we expect them to stand up to bad cops in real life if they’re not even willing to stand up in writing on a private Facebook post?