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> When the community elects to police itself, if someone volunteers to watch a neighbourhood for a night are they considered law enforcement? If not, why? The
by guerrilla 6y ago
> When the community elects to police itself, if someone volunteers to watch a neighbourhood for a night are they considered law enforcement? If not, why?
The difference would be that they would be chosen from the community by the community, not external to it and chosen by external actors.
> "we don't need laws"
This confounds laws with law enforcement. The concepts you're missing are consent and cooperation.
- ryanbrunner 6y ago> This confounds laws with law enforcement. The concepts you're missing are consent and cooperation. I'm not the one making the claim that laws are a social construct and we don't need them.
- guerrilla 6y ago> I'm not the one making the claim that laws are a social construct Now you're confounding two further ideas. Laws are obviously a social construct, nobody serious is going to disagree with that. We create them, unlike the laws of nature.
- slowmovintarget 6y agoYou created a straw-man by omitting "and we don't need them" from your quote. Laws are a social construct. We do need them. Civilization has proven this time and again over thousands of years.
- nailer 6y ago> The difference would be that they would be chosen from the community by the community, not external to it and chosen by external actors. So law enforcement chosen by the community is not law enforcement?
- guerrilla 6y agoIt is not what people call law enforcement today, correct.