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by TheOverSleeper 4327 days ago
This.

Armed forces use scopes to gather information; this is acceptable.

Police under the influence described by the Stanford Prison Experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment) Aim weapons at civilians to assert dominance that they feel they must exert.

The action is the same, the reasoning is different.