Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4116-4120 (October 21st-25th, 2019)
shanejayell:
I'm really not SURPRISED that Roko wants to be able to blackmail enemies....
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 23 Oct 2019, 19:34 ---I'm really not SURPRISED that Roko wants to be able to blackmail enemies....
--- End quote ---
Yeah, it's almost like she's used to everyone having some dirty past.
Is it cold in here?:
Very early on we saw her arm-twisting Faye into becoming an informant. Part of the job. She needs to drop some of her cop reflexes now.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 23 Oct 2019, 19:34 ---I'm really not SURPRISED that Roko wants to be able to blackmail enemies....
--- End quote ---
I'm gonna just go ahead and say it.
I like Roko as a character. And I know she means well, she's not an evil person or anything.
But I'm glad she quit being a cop. I wouldn't trust someone who handles interaction with reople this way to be a cop. Nor would I assume she can suppress this impulse to dig up shit as a potential dirty tactic *when* she is being a cop.
I don't like the phrase "power corrupts", but I've recently been introduced to a similar sentiment, and that's "power reveals". Roko has a certain attitude towards, let's say, justice. And her attitude seems to be "I'm one of the good ones, so of course I need the capacity to leverage my power against someone". This is precisely what I hope never to have to deal with when I have interaction with a police officer.
I may be harsh, but maybe Roko wasn't so above all the dirty cops as she believed herself to be. And sure, it's Roko we're talking about, she isn't out to hurt anyone, she just wants results.
The issue being, I imagine most any cop that takes shortcuts is like "come on, it's me we're talking about! I'm not out to hurt anyone".
Granted, if Roko quit her job as a cop because she wanted to avoid abusing her power and to have less baggage attached to uncompromising approaches due to not being in a position of authority anymore, that's understandable and get it. I'm not exactly condemning her current preparation, but I *am* glad she is not acting in an official capacity as I don't believe that'd be a good fit.
I hope the comic addresses this in some way.
BenRG:
This is probably me but I suspect that Roko may be projecting a bit here. I'm sure that her public personal social media accounts are quite bland but her private ones are all filled with bread and human abs. She does it so why shouldn't everyone else? :lol:
Seriously, though, I'm glad that Beepatrice agrees about the 'adversarial' thing.
--- Quote from: oddtail on 23 Oct 2019, 23:05 ---But I'm glad she quit being a cop. I wouldn't trust someone who handles interaction with reople this way to be a cop. Nor would I assume she can suppress this impulse to dig up shit as a potential dirty tactic *when* she is being a cop.
--- End quote ---
This does seem to be an unfortunate side-effect of modern-police training: It reduces all interactions between your organisation and 'outsiders' to a pseudo-warfare 'us and them' conflict. Everyone else is a potential enemy until proven otherwise and you're only likely to be successful (let alone safe) if you have coerced total control over any scenario.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version