The answer is both. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, it doesn’t mean everyone is always good, or always evil.
“When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you—whom do you betray and whom do you encourage?”
“I don’t see color” is what people say when asked about racism. The Black Lives Matter movement aims to bring attention to the issues surrounding racism and violence towards people of color. Specifically today, the issue is police violence specifically towards people of color. In “The Virtue of Selfishness” and more specifically in “How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?” The concept of moral judgement and how it plays a role in the issue of Black v. Blue lives matter affect the outcome of the movement.
So the dividing line is that people support the men in blue, who in some cases, have performed acts of evil in the form of violence towards people of color. The other side, is the Black Lives Matter movement, which in some cases has prompted people to act in violence in the name of the movement, although not always in the name of good.
Neither side is right or wrong, but both are attempting to bring peace and good into the world. “Moral values are the motive power of a man’s actions. By pronouncing moral judgment, one protects the clarity of one’s own perception and the rationality of the course one chooses to pursue. It makes a difference whether one thinks that one is dealing with human errors of knowledge or with human evil.” I say this because there should not be an issue between Black v. Blue because to pass moral judgement is “that one must know clearly, in full, verbally identified form, one’s own moral evaluation of every person, issue and event with which one deals, and act accordingly” and yet we put men in uniform in one box based on the actions of a few, and we place blacks in another box, based on the actions of a few.
So lets say you don’t get involved in all this because it “doesn’t directly affect you”. You have just then encouraged the evil within the groups, and not stood up for the goodness. You let policemen get away with murdering the innocent, and you refuse to acknowledge that racism occurs and it is still very present. “You dont see color” has just condemned an entire race, congrats.
The issue of Black v. Blue is that it is very black an white. It is an argument for which one is right and which one is wrong. However neither are, but should be judged on a case to case basis, not as a whole.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/29/black-lives-matter-and-blue-lives-matter-at-odds/
This article provides evidence about the polarization between Black v. Blue and efforts to make one prosper over the other. This shows the inability on the part of each individual to not pass moral judgement because they refuse to see both sides. “To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.”