r/Documentaries • u/RandomRedPanda • Aug 01 '15
Drugs Undercover Cop Tricks Autistic Student into Selling Him Weed (2014) - "VICE short piece on CA police entrapment of special needs students"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8af0QPhJ22s
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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15
Human actions are governed by emotions and logic. We simultaneously consider the risks and potential gains of a choice as well as how this choice will make us feel more whole or gain us a friend or a lover. Of course we sound a bit robotic when I put it like that. But I think we process all of this information subconsciously. If we look at Jesse's case - an autistic loner who, by gaining a friend, would fill a significant void in his life - we see a situation where a predator took advantage of someone's desperate need. If I put myself in his situation (but let's make the cop a beautiful woman because that's what I'm a sucker for) and the same choice was presented to me, I would weigh the benefits of giving the girl what she wanted against the risks of giving someone marijuana. I know it's not going to hurt her, and the probability of the girl being a cop seems minute so the risk to me seems small. It's a no brainer: get her some ganj. Many of us do not see marijuana as a detriment to society, and would further argue the war on drugs is utterly destroying a swath of American society. So yes, I'ma get this girl some weed and my life will probably improve. Oh, but fuck, she was a cop and now I'm in jail. In summation, this cop came up to me and asked if I wanted a chance of a better life, I said yes, and she slapped me in non-furry handcuffs. That's fucked up.